Category Archives: Shoplifting

According to the Retail Gazette website, recent research has shown that the retail sector is plagued with 1,000 shoplifting incidents per day, and more than half of them reportedly go unpunished.

Police data shows that UK retailers recorded 359,156 incidents of shoplifting in 2019, and 17 of 45 police forces around the UK saw increases in the number of incidents, with Sussex being the worst hit.

According to the NWE Mail website, two thieves who swiped items from a shop said they could not remember the offence because they were on Valium.

Amy Jane Foster and Terrance Charles Graham admitted taking a number of items off the shelves of Home Bargains in Barrow and leaving without paying.

According to the Craven Herald and Pioneer website, a man caught the bus to do some Christmas shoplifting in Skipton.

Sean Kellet – jailed for 12 weeks – travelled to Skipton from Bradford on December 21 where he attempted to steal £340 of perfume from Boots in the High Street.

The Sun reports that a suspected shoplifter resorted to superhuman evasion tactics by climbing up to the ceiling of a branch of Asda in an attempt to flee security.

Dubbed the ‘Spiderman Shoplifter’, an 18-year-old man was seen to climb up a structural pillar and shuffle along lighting fixings and gas pipes.

The Bristol Live website reports that an accounting student ran up a drug debt and stole almost £700 worth of groceries.

Anotidaishe Mutepfa stole £677.81 worth of food and Corona beer from Sainsbury’s on two occasions.

As reported on Mail Online, a shoplifter has been banned from every store in England – apart from one Tesco Metro – after she stole goods from a Boots store just minutes after being bailed for a previous offence.

Anna Burns left court, walked 750 yards to a Boots shop, and stole £60-worth of make-up.