A MAN with a ‘flagrant disregard for people’ been jailed for attacking another man.

Gary Udale, of Foden Walk, Wilmslow, had pleaded not guilty to assaulting a man at Handforth Dean on August 14, last year.

The 51-year-old changed his plea and admitted the offence at Crewe Magistrates Court on July 28.

Magistrates sentenced him to prison for six weeks because ‘the offence was so serious’.

Udale was put behind bars because magistrates said he ‘had a flagrant disregard for people and their property, a record of like offences and previous breaches of order’.

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The defendant was ordered to pay £75 compensation to the victim.

Udale admitted stealing five bottles of wine and spirits worth £109 from Marks and Spencer at Handforth Dean on August 1, last year.

The defendant was also charged with a similar theft of wine and spirits of an unknown value, from the same store 13 days later on August 14.

Udale was given a further six-week jail term for the theft, to serve concurrently with the first prison sentence.

Magistrates took his guilty plea into account when imposing the sentence.

The defendant was ordered to pay £109 compensation to Marks and Spencer.

The court granted him permission to pay the £184 court penalty at a rate of £20 per month.