Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Chester Standard website reports that a serial meat thief from Ellesmere Port has been jailed for a total of 36 weeks.

Brendan Michael James Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty to a total of 10 charges of stealing meat from stores including M&S and Iceland.

Two sisters stole hundreds of pounds of goods from shops in a retail centre to pay their bills.

A court heard that Kasie Jade McGailey and Tabitha Aimme McGailey’s offences were made out of ‘sheer desperation’ and came about after the Government’s axing of the Universal Credit uplift.

According to the Birmingham Live website, a pair of shoplifters have been jailed after they staged a “sophisticated, pre-planned operation” to steal clothes from TK Maxx.

Florentina Carcu and Daniela Grama used a device to defeat the retailer’s security measures, working as a team to steal almost £2,000-worth of clothing.

According to the Northampton Chronicle website, a shoplifter was sent to jail three days before Christmas after admitting 13 thefts from five shops, totalling £1,600.

Vaughan Coe took booze totalling more than £870 from M&S, BP, One Stop and Sainsbury’s, plus £80-worth of Cathedral City Cheddar cheese from B&M.

According to the Lancashire Telegraph website, a serial shoplifter has been banned from all branches of Boots, Homebase, Tesco and Nisa stores for two years.

Colin Andrew Bray pleaded guilty to five charges of shoplifting and one of assaulting a member of staff at Nisa who had tried to stop him leaving.

The Telegraph & Argus website reports that a shoplifting grandmother cried in court as she was locked up for Christmas.

Sarah Jane Simpson was caught stealing from one shop and handling items stolen from another shop in York on a wholesale basis, amassing a total haul worth £1,800.