Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Mirror website reports that a college has suspended 17 teenagers after they allegedly went on a mass shoplifting spree at a Primark store in Hull.

The group, believed to be entirely made up of girls, have been placed on a “short term suspension pending a meeting with their parents and carers”.

According to the Metro website, a father took two of his children on a shoplifting spree, stuffing electrical items into their backpacks.

Paul Shaw stole three dash cams and a TV streaming stick from a branch of Asda in Burnley but was caught by security staff as he tried to leave the store.

The North Wales Live website reports that a pair of shoplifters took items worth more than £14,000 from shops across North Wales, in a deliberate and targeted thieving spree.

Alexander Andrew James Foster stole items worth £11,652 and his accomplice, Andrew Leigh Martin, took goods valued at £2,452.

The Sun reports that a prolific thief claims to have made £2million during her 45 year shoplifting ‘career’.

Mother-of-six Kim Farry, from SW London, has been in prison five times and shows no remorse for her illegal actions, preferring to see herself as a ‘Fagin’ character.

The Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard website reports that thefts from shops have decreased in Cirencester according to recent police figures, bucking the national trend.

Police say that the reduction in crime is down to police successfully obtaining Criminal Behaviour Orders [CBO] for repeat offenders, banning them from all shops in the city.

Stoke-On-Trent Live reports that a ‘desperate’ shoplifter stole bottles of alcohol from Sainsbury’s because he could not pay his rent after his housing benefit was stopped.

Ian Lincoln – who has 70 previous convictions for theft and similar offences – was desperate not to lose his accommodation so he took the items to sell on.