A PROLIFIC shoplifter has been handed a suspended sentence after admitting to assaulting a policeman and committing another count of affray.

Lisa Lock, of Carlyle Grove, Leigh previous denied the assault of an officer in Wigan on June 14 and the affray of a man and a woman on the same date.

Appearing at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates' Court on Monday, the 41-year-old was given a sentence of five months suspended for 12 months after pleading guilty to both charges.

She had already been convicted of stealing from a Tesco store in Wigan on June 13 and 14.

Lock was ordered to pay compensation fees of £150.