Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Stoke-On-Trent Live website reports that a man stuffed a foil-lined suitcase with clothes in a branch of Sports Direct and tried to leave without paying.

Vasile Baboi told a court that he had simply wanted to send the clothes back home to his children in Romania.

The Chronicle Live website reports that a prolific shoplifter whose latest theft spree netted her £2,000 of make-up, toiletries and candles has finally been jailed.

With more than 50 previous convictions for theft, Suzanne Innes continued to steal from shops and ignore several court orders imposed on her.

The Kent Online website reports that a trio of female thieves stole £2,500-worth of perfume from stores in Bluewater Shopping Centre.

When one of the gang – all Orthodox Christian Roma women – was asked why she did it, she replied: “The devil possessed me!”

The Kent Online website reports that a woman set out to ‘destroy’ the publishing company where she worked, by stealing thousands of pounds in a year.

Ruthless Selena Cronin knowingly deleted computer files, shredded documents and even pocketed the petty cash tin on the day she quit.

The Liverpool Echo website reports that a mum-of-three shoplifted more than £8,000 of beauty products from Boots to feed her cocaine habit.

Adele O’Hara was captured on CCTV stuffing large bags full of cosmetic items before fleeing, striking at one branch nine times over a two-month period.

The Press and Journal website reports that a ‘one-man crime wave’ has been jailed for 30 months after admitting 20 shoplifting offences and five other charges.

A court heard that one of Steven William Potter’s high-value theft involved stealing £1,000 of clothing from Inverness outdoor store Tiso.