A BROMSGROVE mother-of-two who used stolen debit cards to buy mobile phones from shops across the Midlands has escaped jail after a judge heard she is pregnant with her third child.

Instead Lisa Jackson, of Exmoor Drive, was sentenced to 12 months in prison suspended for two years after she pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to four charges of deception and one of receiving a stolen debit card.

The 25-year-old, who asked for another offence of deception and four of attempted deception to be taken into consideration, was also made the subject of a supervision order for 12 months.

Prosecutor Adam Western said earlier this year a police surveillance operation was mounted to trap people carrying out frauds to obtain expensive mobile phones.

In May, Jackson went into the Link branch, in Coopers Shopping Centre, in Burton-on-Trent to buy two mobile phones with BT Cellnet connection for £334 each.

She paid for them with a Barclays debit card in the name of a Miss M Chapman, who lives in Shirley, Solihull, and also had one of Miss Chapman's bank statements as proof of her identity. Later that day, again posing as Miss Chapman, she went to the Phone Box shop, in Baker Street, Lichfield, and bought two Nokia mobile phones.

A few days later Jackson received a Nat West switch card and a bank statement, which had been taken during a burglary at Pamela Scott's home in Solihull.

She posed as Pamela Scott, but giving an address in Sanders Road, Bromsgrove, to buy more mobile phones in Solihull.

Mr Western said Jackson had a previous conviction for shoplifting, and in November last year had been put on probation for six months for receiving a stolen chequebook and using it to obtain goods in Bromsgrove.

Matthew Barnes, defending, said: "My submission is that you can, just, give her a final chance. She had large debts, and still does, and got in with other people. She was prepared, because of her own parlous situation, to be dishonest."

He added that Jackson, who was terrified of going to prison, had two young children and was about halfway through a difficult pregnancy with her third child.

Judge Richard Cole told Jackson: "You appeared before a court last year and were given the assistance of the probation service, but are back again for committing offences as part of an organised crime.

"It has to be marked by custody, but there are circumstances which enable me to suspend the sentence."