Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Wiltshire Times website reports that a prolific shoplifter who stole more than £130-worth of alcohol from Tesco, has been jailed for 18 weeks.

On his arrest, Denroy Thomas was already on a suspended sentence for theft offences committed back in 2019.

The News & Star website reports that a shoplifter who stole Jack Daniels whiskey from Carlisle supermarkets twice in three days told police he did not normally steal – despite having 22 thefts on his record.

Patrick Beard brazenly stole whiskey worth more than £300 from two city stores.

The Stoke On Trent Live website reports that thief Kieran Sharkie stole £30 worth of Yankee Candles after claiming he was being ‘bullied’ in sheltered housing.

A court heard that Sharkie was coerced into drug-taking, assaulted and stolen from and was told to take property and goods that could be sold on.

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.