Joby Pool admitted snatching the chocolate haul from an industrial unit in Telford.
BBC News, West MidlandsJoby Pool admitted at an earlier hearing to taking a trailer of the chocolate from an industrial unit in Telford, Shropshire, in February this year.Pool, aged 32, from Tingley, near Leeds, was sentenced to 18 months with half to be spent in prison.Pool, of Dewsbury Road, used a tractor unit stolen in Yorkshire in October to tow away the trailer, the court heard.
The stolen chocolate was then driven northbound on the M42 where he gave himself up by walking towards police "with his hands up", a previous hearing was told.Pool, who appeared in the dock in a grey long-sleeved shirt on Thursday, had previously admitted theft. He had also pleaded guilty to criminal damage to a lock at the trailer park and driving without insurance.
In a series of tweets posted two days after the theft, West Mercia Police said they "helped save Easter" by foiling the thief.Follow BBC West Midlands on
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