Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Belfast Telegraph’s website reports that two friends who went on a pre-Christmas shoplifting spree have been given jail sentences totalling 27 months.

Joseph McCabe and Brian Paul Ward were jointly accused of four counts of theft relating to £231 of Christmas decorations from The Range, four turkeys from Iceland, and a lamb from Tesco.

As reported on the Metro website, the notorious ‘Shoplifting Queen’ and grandmother Kim Farry has turned her life around after becoming an online personal trainer during lockdown.

Farry was jailed five times for theft during a 45-year criminal career, started taking food and clothes at the age of nine to help support her parents and eight younger siblings.

The Inverness Courier website reports that a serial shoplifter stole more than £1600 worth of goods from Inverness stores in the first seven months of 2020.

Jacqueline Rabbeth – jailed for a total of 27 months – admitting seven charges of shoplifting from Debenhams, Superdrug and Marks and Spencer.

The Northern Echo website reports that a man who sold stolen items on eBay benefitted from his crimes by £250,503 over a two-year period.

Malcolm Teasdale sold items stolen from lorries and from an electrical goods shop via an eBay account in his daughter’s name.

According to the Eastern Daily Press website, a man got himself arrested for shoplifting as a way to try to smuggle drugs into jail, hidden in Kinder egg containers.

Jamie Burns was arrested for stealing alcohol but when placed in a police cell he admitted to officers he had heroin, cocaine and cannabis about his person, which he was planning to try to smuggle in to Norwich prison.

According to The Sun website, the Government is to tell cops to prosecute shoplifters stealing under £200 worth of goods after retailers complained that smaller thefts are ignored by police.

A Home Office report found that 70% of retailers rated the police response to shop crime as “poor” or “very poor”.