A man from Marsh has been jailed and ordered to repay more than £2,000 to his grandmother after withdrawing money from her savings without permission.
Leeds Crown Court heard at the time Marcus Moore had a gambling problem.
His grandmother who was in her 80s was in sheltered accommodation and he was given her PIN number and card to get items for her.
However he made 12 withdrawals totalling £2,240 for himself over about three weeks prior to January 15 this year.
Edward Marsh, prosecuting, said Moore was also involved in an earlier offence on April 20 last year in the Hart bar in Huddersfield.
A member of staff recognised that the woman with Hart had previously been barred from the premises and told the landlord who saw Moore and the woman going into the male toilets.
Suspecting drugs were involved he went in to tell them to leave but violence ensued in which others became involved and during which the landlord suffered some minor injuries.
Georgina Goring, for Moore, said he had made legitimate withdrawals for his grandmother but things had “spiralled” into offending because he was struggling with a gambling addiction to roulette machines in bookmakers.
He had now had himself barred from the premises and had sought help from an organisation which had ensured he had not gambled for sometime.
He was working full-time and had managed to save up the money to repay his grandmother to whom he had been close and he was turning his life around.
He accepted throwing two punches in the public house as part of an incident that was over very quickly. The couple had gone to the toilets to use cocaine and Moore was also affected by drink.
Moore, 35, of Luck Lane, Marsh, admitted fraud by false representation and affray and being in breach of a suspended sentence imposed in November 2014 for producing a Class B drug.
Jailing him for a total of two years Judge James Spencer QC said it was impossible to give him another suspended sentence as had been urged.
He told Moore: “You took advantage of your grandmother’s good nature and took all this money from her.”
Moore was ordered to pay £2,240 compensation to her within 28 days through his solicitors.
