A 20-year-old man who reportedly stole a seven ounce tin of corned beef from a Supermarket in Santa Cruz St Elizabeth will have to spend the next month behind bars.

Clive Young of Farm District, Clarendon and Burnt Savannah District in St Elizabeth was sentenced to 30 days at hard labour after he pleaded guilty to simple larceny. Young appeared in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court before RM Dionne Meyler-Reid on Tuesday.

The Court heard that on December 4, Young went to a supermarket about 11:30 a.m. where he stole the corned beef and was caught.

The Santa Cruz Police were called in and Young was subsequently arrested and charged with simply larceny.