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Thief Stole £1,000-Worth Of Condoms
The Leicester Mercury reports that a shoplifter stole a £1,000 haul of condoms from a city centre shop, along with chocolate and alcohol from other stores.
Mohammed Mousavifard stole the condoms from Boots and targeted Poundland and Sainsbury’s for the chocolate and alcohol.
read moreCo-Op Manager Sold Stolen Goods On Ebay
The Okehampton Times reports that a Co-op manager stole thousands of pounds worth of electrical goods and sold them at half price on eBay.
Christian Allen told police he started stealing because he was being blackmailed by a mystery man who left threatening notes on the windscreen of his car.
read moreBookies Clerk Staged Fake Hold-Up
The Express reports that a father and daughter staged a faked robbery at a bookmakers in a plot to steal £3,500.
Chevvine Darling worked as a cashier at a branch of Ladbrokes when her father, John White, allegedly walked in wearing a black cap and a green scarf over his face.
read moreAsda Boss Stole £34k From Tills
The Manchester Evening News reports that a trusted Asda supermarket boss dipped her fingers in the tills to steal more than £34,000 over eight months.
Tracy Crowley waged a ‘quite deliberate and prolonged’ campaign of theft and caught after a colleague became suspicious.
read moreCo-Op Worker Loses Job Over Ciggie Theft
As reported in the East Anglian Daily Times, a former Co-op employee lost his job and previous good character after confessing to stealing more than £1,000 worth of cigarettes.
Paul Adams was caught in the act on CCTV and immediately came clean, confessing to stealing £1,173 worth of cigarettes over the course of two-and-a-half months.
read moreMore CCTV On Self-Service Tills
According to The Mirror, Sainsbury’s will soon be watching shoppers’ every move after installing extra CCTV at their self-service checkouts.
The supermarket – fed up with people slipping extra items into their bags – has fitted CCTV cameras and mirrors above the self-checkout tills in a new security scheme.
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