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A shoplifter who targeted Bishop’s Stortford has been jailed for 31 weeks. James How, 39, from Scott Avenue in Stanstead Abbotts, was sentenced at Hatfield Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, February 7. He was given one week’s imprisonment for theft from Marks and Spencer in Hertford on Tuesday, February 6, when several bottles of wine were stolen. In addition, he was given a 12-week and an 18-week sentence for breaching two previous suspended sentence orders, taking the total to 31 weeks in prison. The suspended sentences related to nine thefts that occurred at shops in Bishop’s Stortford, Ware…