A COCAINE addict who had just been given probation was jailed after he tried to steal goods from a store armed with a ten-inch knife.

Denash Kundra, 26, from Windsor Drive, High Wycombe, had tried to steal electrical goods on February 15 from Tesco in Amersham in order to fund his drug habit, and was jailed for 12 months by the same judge who had given him probation two weeks earlier.

Appearing at Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday, Kundra pleaded guilty to possessing an offensive weapon and asked for a theft and an attempted theft to be taken into consideration.

Richard Sothcott, prosecuting, said staff at the store saw Kundra acting suspiciously.

When they asked him to leave he threatened to walk out of the store with a trolley full of electrical equipment and was holding a bread knife as he walked towards the exit.

He put the knife back in his pocket as he was leaving the store when the alarm was sounded. He was stopped and gave in without any trouble, the prosecutor said.

Kundra was committed to the court by Amersham magistrates on February 16 and on Friday he also admitted breaching a two-year probation order given on January 26 for various offences including criminal damage and deception.

Colin Allan, defending, told the court Kundra had psychological problems as well as a cocaine habit.

Judge David Morton Jack said Kundra had thrown away the chance he had been given within two or three weeks and said: "Now there is no option but to send you to prison for the current offences and to revoke the probation."

He was given six months for possessing an offensive weapon and six months consecutive for breaching his probation order.