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A man has been locked up after repeatedly defecating outside upmarket boutique shops.

Darren Yardley was handed a five-year criminal behaviour order last month after continuously going to the toilet outside the trendy stores' doorways.

But just 24 hours later, the 34-year-old - who also publicly injected drugs in Chester - was caught breaching the order and hauled back into court.

Now, he has been jailed for 42 weeks after magistrates heard he repeatedly defecated outside shops in one of England's most historic walled cities.

The original order had been imposed on Yardley on June 10 after a string of incidents, including injecting drugs in public and going to the toilet in open places.

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But West Cheshire Magistrates' Court was told that the very next day, he was arrested for being back in the city centre.

Yardley, of Boughton, Chester, further breached his order on June 21.

Rob Youds, prosecuting, said the criminal was back to his old nuisance ways and urged the JPs to jail him for the double order breaches.

Yardley admitted two breaches of the order, along with failing to surrender to bail.

Stephen Coupe, defending, urged magistrates to impose a suspended prison sentence, telling them that Yardley lived a chaotic life and was now stable on a methadone subscription.

Chester is one of Britain's oldest cities, founded as a 'castrum' or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian in AD79.

Its upmarket, trendy boutique shops are also currently the backdrop for the Channel 4 TV soap, Hollyoaks.