text: Christine Carriage, 67, (pictured) was handed a six-month suspended sentence at Norwich Crown Court . A grandmother hoarded 1,300 items of stolen clothing in her tiny bungalow – which police said was like a ‘warehouse’. Officers raiding Christine Carriage’s one-bedroom home found that 340 of the stolen items still had price tags on. But this week the 67-year-old walked free from court. A total of 1,337 items of clothing, shoes and handbags – valued at £5,620 – were seized by police from the home in Bowthorpe, Norwich, on November 4, 2013. William Carter, prosecuting, said police found an 8ft-long clothes rail bending under the huge weight of the clothing in one room. He said: ‘The officers described the property as looking more like a clothing warehouse than a dwelling. Each room was packed.’ On Wednesday, Carriage admitted acquiring, using or possessing criminal property. When police searched the house, she was at the property with son Shane Carriage, 45, and grandson Luke Hall. Officers found cash, drug paraphernalia and at least an eighth of a kilo of cocaine. Carriage had convictions for dishonesty from the 1960s and 1970s, and two convictions for shoplifting in the 1980s, as well as one in 1996 and another in 2012. Philippa Page, defending, said some items were Carriage’s clothes and those of her son, grandson and late husband. She said Carriage was guilty of mistaken family loyalty in allowing her ‘increasingly out-of-control’ grandson to store stolen clothes at her home. Sentencing Carriage, Judge Maureen Bacon told her: ‘You have been a dishonest woman through all your life. 'I don’t see why I should inflict your keep on the public purse by sending you to prison today.’ She was given a suspended six-month jail sentence, ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work and told to pay an £80 victim surcharge at Norwich Crown Court. But Carriage and her son were cleared of supplying cocaine last August after Recorder Peter Wallis ruled there was no case to answer. Hall had previously admitted supplying cocaine, possessing cocaine and possessing criminal property and was jailed for 34 months. A grandmother's swag: Hundreds of stolen items from shoes to handbags were discovered by police in a raid on the one-bedroom home of serial offender Christine Carriage in November 2013 . Police raided the one-bedroom bungalow in Bowthorpe, Norwich (pictured) where Christine Carriage lived. She was at the property at the time along with her son Shane Carriage, 45, and grandson Luke Hall . Seized: Police found an eight foot long clothes rail bending under the weight of the clothing in one room .
target: Stash valued at £5,620 discovered in 67-year-old Christine Carriage's home .
  Officers said property looked more like clothing warehouse than a dwelling .
  She was handed a  six-month suspended sentence at Norwich Crown Court .