A teenager who used a stolen credit card to buy alcohol has been sentenced to three months behind bars.

Daeshon Warner, 19, from St George’s, pleaded guilty to two counts of dishonestly obtaining a bank card belonging to Bradley Mitchell and using it to purchase $22.25 of alcohol from Churchills on September 28.

During a sentencing hearing yesterday, the court head that Warner had committed the offence while on probation for breaking and entering — an offence for which he had been given a nine-month suspended sentence.

Addressing the court, Warner said that he had been in trouble in the past because he was hanging around with the wrong people, but was now making efforts to get back on the right track.

On the day in question, he said someone he knew had given him the credit card to use to purchase alcohol and that he did not know the card had been stolen until he was arrested.

“I’m just trying to keep my head above water,” Warner said.

“I’m just trying to be a different person from this.

“I wish I could change a lot of things, but I cannot change time.”

Magistrate Archibald Warner said that the defendant must have known the card was stolen, given the circumstances.

The magistrate added that while the amount of money involved in the charges was low, the courts must deter credit card fraud and consider the defendant’s previous convictions.

“I’m of the view that in all of the circumstances, this matter should be dealt with by an immediate custodial sentence,” he said.

Mr Warner sentenced the defendant to serve three months in prison for each offence, with the time to be served concurrently.