Relentless cries for mercy could not save a woman who was caught shoplifting two bottles of Appleton and a bottle of Vodka from a supermarket in St Andrew.

Alice Wilson was slapped with an 18-month prison sentence after revealing that she had been caught more than once shoplifting.

“Mi a beg you. I want you to be lenient and give me one more chance inna life and I am going to make good use of it,” Wilson told RM Judith Pusey on Tuesday after pleading guilty to shoplifting.

Wilson, in her 40s, was caught at MegaMart Wholesale Club on Waterloo Road in St Andrew on September 28, trying to leave the store with three bottles of liquor, valued at $7,621.63.

“I know I was wrong to go into MegaMart, but I am going through some hardship,” she told the court.

Wilson then explained that her mother died and left two properties but that her brother had taken them over and she wanted “a little justice”.

But RM Pusey was baffled about her suffering.

“Appleton and Vodka? What kind of hardship you have?” she asked.

The magistrate then questioned Wilson about her record and was told that she had shoplifted more than once, had spent two years in prison and had also received a suspended sentence.

“You spend two years for shoplifting and you come in here a make noise as if you are right,” RM Pusey told Wilson.

“Give mi a chance, mi house unprotected. Whoi mi house,” she started to cry, while pretending as if she was fainting.

But she quickly composed herself and said: “I am a Jamaican and like the drama, so please.”

Puesy replied: “I believe that if you like to do crime, you must like the time.”