A man who stole his father’s bank card and used it to withdraw £200 in cash has been jailed.

Kyle Stanley Andrew Collins, of Demesne Road, in Douglas, also used the bank card for a transaction worth £24.

The offence was committed while 23-year-old Collins was on licence after an early release from a nine-month prison sentence imposed in May.

That sentence was imposed after he burgled his parents’ home and stole items to pay off a drug debt.

Magistrates jailed Collins for four weeks for the theft of the card and also ordered him to serve 10 weeks of the previous sentence, to run concurrently meaning he will serve a 10 weeks sentence.

We previously reported how Collins’ father had left his bank card in a phone case at his home.

It went missing after Collins had visited.

When his father checked his bank balance online, he found that £200 had been taken out from a cash machine outside the Co-op in Duke Street that he could not account for.

He contacted Collins before informing the police but Collins replied, texting: ’I was going to get my head kicked in.’

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His father was going to wait but then found a further transaction of £24 had been put on the card.

He contacted his son again after blocking any further transactions.

Collins was said to have made no attempt to return the card and his father informed the police.

Police attended Collins’ home on November 12 and he told them: ’I got rid of it’.

However, police found the card in his dressing gown pocket.

Defence advocate Deborah Myerscough asked magistrates to follow the recommendation of a probation report which suggested a combination of community service and probation.

’He attend the drug and alcohol team yesterday to begin the process that he needs to help him,’ said the advocate.

’He is waiting for a further appointment. It is clear addiction is at the root of this.

’This is not work that can take place at the prison.

’Custody will punish him and protect his parents and the public but it won’t necessarily address that rehabilitation element that’s clearly missing.’

Passing sentence, magistrates chair Gill Eaton told Collins: ’You were released on August 10.

’No doubt it was made abundantly clear that should you commit further offences you could be returned to serve the balance of the sentence.’