Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Manchester Evening News website reports that a heroin addict and prolific shoplifter has been banned from all Holland & Barratt stores in the UK.

Paul Dobson stole from the Chorlton branch of the health food retailer on eight separate occasions between February and May last year.

The Birmingham Live website reports that a serial shoplifter who was banned from every Asda in the country has struck at a branch of the supermarket in Coventry.

Serena Frances Lillah Downs – now jailed for 20 weeks – was banned from the store nationwide, after a £1,000 thieving spree early in 2019.

According to the Chronicle Live website, a brazen thief hired a taxi to take him shoplifting as part of a thieving spree which has now seen him banned from the Silverlink Shopping Park in Tyneside.

Cocksure crook Dean Robinson covered security tags in tin foil to evade detection, but was eventually caught by detectives who linked him to a string of store thefts.

The Mirror reports that Britain’s most prolific shoplifter – with 546 offences – has escaped jail by claiming that a fall he had in 1970 is to blame for his 49 years of thieving.

Harry Hankinson fell from a hotel balcony whilst watching Alf Ramsey’s team on TV during the tournament in Mexico.

According to the Drinks Retailing News website, theft of alcoholic drinks is the greatest contributor to the annual £11bn cost of shrinkage across the UK.

With shoplifting in general being the main cause of shrinkage – closely followed by thieving staff and administrative errors – BWS was the category most likely to be hit by thieves, followed by cheese, meat, sweets and canned fish.

The Nottinghamshire Live website reports that a Romanian national arrived in the UK on a Friday, shoplifted on the Saturday and was jailed on the Monday.

Leonard-Valter Tudor took a foil-lined bag into TK Maxx in Nottingham city centre, hoping that it would fool security screens.