Category Archives: Shoplifting

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”.

The Warrington Guardian website reports that a shoplifter stole thousands of pounds worth of goods from a branch of Boots on one day.

Sarah Gillam – jailed for 20 weeks – took an estimated £2,500 of fragrances and was arrested when she returned to the store a week later.

The Guardian website reports that a new political party was launched in London by a group of activists from Extinction Rebellion [XR] marking the event by shoplifting a haul of goods from Sainsbury’s.

Five members of the Beyond Politics party filled trolleys with food but left without paying, apparently to highlight the instability of global food distribution.

The Manchester Evening News website reports that a violent shoplifter kicked the head of security guard ‘like a football’ after being caught stealing vodka in a branch of Asda.

Daniel Wardle – jailed for two years – punched the guard to the ground, kicked his head and then ran away as the man lay unconscious with a broken jaw.

According to the Derbyshire Live website, a man has been jailed for over a year following a three-month shoplifting spree, which included a haul of 16 bottles of self-tan lotion.

Leeroy Simpson also stole beef steaks and boxes of washing powder in a series of thefts he committed between February 16 and May 1.