A woman has narrowly avoided prison after breaching a series of court orders while awaiting sentence for numerous thefts around town. Vanessa Hunter, 37, who currently resides at the Lynn Night Shelter, barely avoided being jailed when she was sentenced at the town’s magistrates’ court on Thursday. Over the course of several court appearances, she had pleaded guilty to a series of thefts and breaches of court orders. Four of those thefts were committed following a deferral of sentence which was to monitor how well she kept appointments with the probation service. It also required her to commit…