A 42-YEAR-OLD Stroud man who stole a £165 jacket has been put on a community order.

Matthew Edrich of John Street, Westgate, Stroud admitted stealing the jacket from the town’s Millets on January 15 when he appeared before Cheltenham magistrates the following day.

He was given a community order with a drug rehabilitation requirement until July 2018 and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs.