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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.