Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Manchester Evening News website reports that a serial shoplifter has been banned from wearing a hat or any headgear in any supermarket.

The order is in response to thief Sam Taggart’s prolonged two-year stealing spree.

As reported on the Bristol Post website, a ‘professional shoplifter’ has been banned from entering Bristol city centre for three years.

Junior Miller, known as Errol Miller, has been convicted of 48 theft-related offences, stealing designer clothes to fund his ‘lavish life’.

The Northampton Chronicle website reports that a serial shoplifter stole an astonishing 96 bottles of booze – the equivalent of 16 cases – from three stores during a 25-day thieving spree.

Antony Cantor’s pilfered haul included four bottles of Jack Daniels, 22 bottles of prosecco, 70 bottles of wine and two bottles of port.

According to the News & Star website, a shoplifter travelled to Carlisle from the North East to steal goods from Tesco worth more than £1,000 on two consecutive days.

Natasha Waddle pleaded guilty to the two thefts – one of £361 on a Monday and then another worth £659 the very next day.

The Mail Online website reports that shoplifting has soared to record levels of nearly a billion pounds a year, according to the latest study by the British Retail Consortium.

Customer theft reached £935 million in the year to March 2020, up a staggering 21% per cent on the previous 12 months.

The Bishop’s Stortford Independent website reports that a brazen shoplifter used a two-wheeled scooter to navigate the aisles in Boots, stealing items as he went.

Despite being apprehended by a customer, the thief continued on his crime spree, grabbing nasal strips worth £18 and a Nicorette nasal spray worth £46 before scooting out the door.