Category Archives: Shoplifting

According to Yahoo! News, a major shoplifting ring has been busted after a ‘swap-shop’ containing thousands of pounds worth of designer shoes and clothes was discovered by police.

Officers raided a property in Nottingham and found around 240 boxes of designer shoes, 40 boxes of household goods and cosmetics as well as clothes stacked floor to ceiling.

The Belfast Live website reports that high performance police Interceptor cars are being used to tackle organised shoplifting gangs operating across Ireland and Britain.

Police and retail chiefs say a number of gangs, who had stolen goods worth thousands of pounds, have been caught thanks to use of the vehicles and the sharing of intelligence between officers and businesses.

The Daily Record website reports that an “overzealous” security guard at a Lidl store broke a thief’s leg after tackling him for shoplifting.

Leandro Da Silva spotted the thief – David O’Connor – trying to steal from the shop in Edinburgh and knelt on his body to restrain him, before piling a second thief on top of him.

An opinion piece on the Daily Record website reports that recorded instances of shoplifting in Scotland have risen 18 per cent in the 12 months ending in June 2022.

Just under 25,000 incidents were recorded by police – an average of 68 per day – but the real number is likely to be far higher, with many store managers simply letting thieves go with a telling-off.

As reported on The Reading Chronicle website, a prolific TK Maxx shoplifter who stole £875-worth of the store’s clothes has been jailed for 36 weeks.

Marian-Cornel Moldovan had been given a 10-week suspended prison sentence but reoffended twice in the following five months.

As reported on the Metro website, supermarkets have enlisted staff – ‘meat monitors’ – to protect expensive cuts of meat due to increased shoplifting sparked by the cost-of-living crisis.

Upmarket stores in Maidenhead were forced to act after losing ‘thousands of pounds worth of stock’ every week.