week after she admitted stealing two handbags on the same day from the hospice for terminally ill patients.

Karen Lorraine Denbrook, 37, also admitted attempting to steal a third handbag -- belonging to hospice director Hilary Soares -- when she appeared in Magistrates' Court.

Denbrook admitted stealing a handbag owned by Catherine Francis Paul of Devonshire on June 25. The contents were valued at $85.

She also stole another handbag on the same day, owned by Suzette Edmead of Paget. Its contents were valued at $45. The contents of Soares' handbag were put at $65.M After a probation officer said a prison term would be appropriate, Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis jailed Denbrook for two months, less the two weeks she had already spent in custody.