Monthly Archives: August 2023

According to the Metro website, first-time offenders caught shoplifting could now receive just a caution from police, it has been revealed.

The guidance is part of Government efforts to end a patchwork of cautions, warnings and penalties used to deal with minor crimes.

The Lancashire Telegraph website reports that a pharmaceutical dispenser who stole anxiety medication from his employer before selling them to other people has been jailed for repeating the same crime some 10 years later.

Irfan Patel began ordering boxes of painkillers Tramadol and Dihydrocodeine, when he was not authorised to do so, and took them home without permission.