A ‘REGULAR dishonest offender’ who broke the left leg of a woman after stealing food and fuel from a service station has been locked up for 18 months.

Oldbury woman Leesa Wise was reversing a stolen Nissan without looking at the BP Service Station in New Birmingham Road when she crushed the woman between another vehicle.

The 35-year-old, who had 79 previous convictions on her criminal record, was not linked to the theft of the Nissan, Howard Searle, prosecuting, told Wolverhampton Crown Court.

He said she was caught on CCTV as she tried to make off with £27 worth of petrol and £38 food, while at the time she was on bail for another offence and there was a warrant out for her arrest.

Mr Searle said Wise, who had drug problems, had been given numerous chances by courts in the past but she had failed to change her ways and she continued to break the law.

Wise, of Aziz Isaac Close, Langley, admitted causing injury by dangerous driving, making off without payment and driving without insurance or a licence.

Niall Skinner, defending, told the court that Wise accepted she should have stayed at the scene to give assistance to the injured woman, but she had not “been thinking straight”.

He added: “This is the state she has been in for the last 15 years while living the life of a hapless Class A drug addict.”

He stressed it was the first time she had caused injury as a result of her bad behaviour and it was an incident that had made her “determined to change her lifestyle”.