A man has been fined after begging for cash on Huddersfield streets.
Ernest David, 20, appeared at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court in custody.
He pleaded guilty to two offences of placing himself in a public place, street, highway or passage to beg or gather aims.
The charges were brought under the Vagrancy Act of 1824.
The court heard that David was first caught begging on New Street on May 7.
He was arrested and ordered by police not to beg in public or enter Huddersfield town centre for 12 weeks.
But David was back in the town on June 20, this time begging in Market Place.
Prosecutor Bill Astin told the court that he was outside Lloyds Bank, asking members of the public for money and displaying signs.
The court heard that David had a previous conviction for begging in Liverpool from August 2014 as well as a caution for begging in the same city in June that year.
The Hungarian, now living in the Bradford area, said through a interpreter that he now planned to gain employment washing cars.
District Judge Nick Hales told him: “Get a job, pay your debts and stop begging.”
He fined David a total of £150 and told him to pay £85 costs and £30 victim surcharge.
