A burglar has been jailed after targeting a Watford café twice in 24 hours.

Samuel Neil Dobbs, also known as Paul Rutherford, admitted to burgling Café Bianco in The Parade and destroying its door.

Hertfordshire Constabulary confirmed a glass door was smashed and bottles of wine were taken at around 2am on November 22.

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Dobbs then returned to the café in the early hours the following morning, but police were called to reports of him damaging another door and he was arrested.

The prolific thief, of no fixed address, was sentenced to six weeks in prison for the charges in Watford by York Magistrates' Court.

Concurrent with other charges for offences elsewhere in the country he was given an overall sentence of 22 weeks' jail.

He was ordered to pay £14 in compensation for the two bottles of wine.

As Dobbs he is listed as aged 37 but 38 as Rutherford, York Magistrates' Court.

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