A DAY trip to York for an expectant couple ended with the father-to-be in prison and the mum-to-be under curfew.

Thomas Henstock and Kelly Anne Wetherill were on the M62 heading back to their north Manchester home when police pulled them over in a car with fake number plates and arrested them, said Kathryn Reeve, prosecuting.

They had stolen a television and a hoover worth together £628 from Asda's Monks Cross store.

Staff had spotted Henstock and another man taking the items, noted the number plate of the car Wetherill drove them away in and contacted police.

Henstock, 26, of Grimshaw Lane, Middleton, north Manchester, and Wetherill, 30, of Tenham Walk, Manchester, both admitted theft.

Wetherill also admitted using false number plates, driving without a licence and driving without insurance.

Henstock reacted angrily as York magistrates jailed him for two months.

Wetherill was put under a nightly curfew for two months, banned from driving for two months, and ordered to pay an £85 statutory surcharge.

For the couple, Keith Whitehouse said Wetherill had been hospitalised twice during her pregnancy.

The shoplifting had been opportunistic, he said. The couple and a third man had come to York to pick up a friend who was working on a project in the city and not to shoplift.