Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Cambridge Live website reports that a prolific shoplifter has been banned from entering any Co-Op, Tesco and TK Maxx store in Peterborough.

Joshua Turner broke into staff areas of shops and stole six bottles of Jack Daniels worth a total of £210.

According to the Sky News website, the UK’s Policing Minister has said that the cost of living crisis is “no excuse” for a rise in shoplifting.

With a huge increase to incidents of retail theft, Chris Philp said gangs, criminal re-selling and drugs were largely to blame.

The Guardian website investigates the so-called ‘food black market’ from Leeds, the city that has been revealed as England’s shoplifting capital

A ‘normal’ woman is seen making an illicit transaction with three balaclava-clad men, a trio of thieves who have no problem shifting their stolen wares.

An exclusive investigation by the Mirror website follows security officers as they go head to head with the ‘brazen’ thieves who are the scourge of the UK’s high streets.

With shoplifting costing British shop owners almost £1billion a year, business leaders are warning that thieves are growing more confident than ever.

According to the BBC News website, hundreds of vulnerable women and children are being trafficked to the UK to shoplift for Eastern European criminal groups.

One company in Scotland has identified a gang with 154 shoplifters stealing high-value items in bulk to sell or ship abroad.

The Belfast Telegraph reported that a local man has admitted to stealing more than £3,000 of Lego during a three-month shoplifting spree.

In 11 separate incidents, Peter Stewart stole the popular children’s toy from a range of shops including Tesco, B&M and Smyths Toys Superstores.