A crook was spotted stealing clothes from a washing line in Hamilton just hours after he was freed from prison.James Whiteley was chased and caught after stuffing items worth more than £200 in a holdall.This week a sheriff sent him back to jail, saying the Covid-19 crisis had scuppered his chances of supervision in the community.Whiteley, 49, of the Blue Triangle homeless unit in Portwell, Hamilton, appeared at the town’s sheriff court on Monday.He admitted stealing clothing from a line in Donaldson Street on Friday (June 5).Whiteley has five pages of previous convictions.On Friday he was released from HMP Addiewell after serving half of a 30-month sentence for trying to rob a man at knifepoint in Blantyre.The court heard he was spotted.