A SUPERMARKET worker who stole scratch cards as well as food and alcohol from work has been warned he could be jailed.

Andrew Menday, 33, plundered the items from Sainsbury’s in Royal Wootton Bassett over a period of a month in the run up to Christmas last year.

Menday took the lottery cards between November 9 and December 9 and the food and drink between November 14 and December 4.

Menday, of Blain Place, Royal Wootton Bassett, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft when he appeared at Swindon Crown Court.

Jonathan Lewis, defending, asked for the case to be put off so a pre-sentence report could be carried out on his client who was aware he could be facing jail.

Recorder Don Tait adjourned the case to Friday, July 3, and released him on bail on condition he does not enter Sainsbury’s stores in Wiltshire.

He said: “You will in due course receive full credit for pleading guilty at the first opportunity but you appreciate, I am sure, that these are serious offences.

“When people steal from their employers the court, as a matter of course, takes the matters extremely seriously. I am sure you appreciate that.

“The fact I am ordering a pre-sentence report and releasing you on bail should not be taken by you as an indication of how you will be sentenced. I have already told you these are serious matters and custody must be a possibility.”