A deputy bar manager and his accomplice fled with £11,897 in takings after he was left in charge of a pub.
Kevin Brown, 24, was left to run Que Pasa, in New Road, Oxford, between January 19 and 21.
Sue Davies, prosecuting, told Oxford Crown Court Brown and another man, described only as 'Tony', vanished on Sunday, January 21, with the takings from the previous three days and went to Leeds.
Brown, now of St Barnabas Road, Sheffield, admitted theft.
John Simmons, defending, said Brown had handed himself in to police in Sheffield saying: "I have had enough of running and I have to be punished."
Judge Peter Crawford described the theft as "carefully planned" and sentenced Brown to eight months' imprisonment.
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