A MAN has been jailed for three months after being caught stealing surgical masks from a south London hospital.

Lerun Hussain, 34, from Clapham in southwest London, was sentenced to 12 weeks at Croydon Magistrates’ Court following the incident at King’s College Hospital. 

Police were called to the hospital in Denmark Hill, Lambeth, at around 11:20hrs on April 5 after Hussain was detained by hospital security staff after he stole three face masks.

Hussain was arrested on suspicion of theft and also detained for being in breach of a court order.

Later that same day Hussain was charged with theft.

He appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on April 7 where he pleaded guilty to theft and was sentenced that same day to three months imprisonment.