The woman was drinking at The Hercules Pub near Lambeth North station at around 5.30pm on July 4 when a man pinched her handbag.
As well as the Louis Vuitton purse, the handbag contained Prada sunglasses worth over £400 and around £70 cash in different currencies.
Alfie Joseph Crawley, 53, of Fir Trees Close in Surrey Quays, was later identified as the thief.
A few weeks later on July 24, Crawley stole a handbag containing £5,000 of personal belongings from a woman at St James’s in Westminster.
Crawley pleaded guilty to both thefts at Croydon Crown Court last Friday (December 6).
He was sentenced to 38 weeks in custody – approximately eight and a half months.
At the same court hearing Crawley also pleaded guilty to driving whilst disqualified and failing to provide a specimen for analysis.
On October 10 he was pulled over in a Nissan Micra in Lewisham and failed to provide a blood sample to test for alcohol or drugs.
Crawley was disqualified from driving a further 71 weeks.
