Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Belfast Telegraph reports that a woman claimed she used shoplifting as a “crutch” because she was anxious over a £20,000 credit card debt.

Julie Adair mounted a mammoth thieving spree and stole an “eye-watering” amount of goods, worth “thousands”, and pleaded guilty to 16 charges of shoplifting.

The Burton Mail reports that a thief managed to steal more than 100 cans of Red Bull over the course of two months, and all from the same shop.

Miroslav Vagai admitted five counts of shoplifting the popular energy drink from a Sainsbury’s store in Derby.

As reported in The Mail, a gang of three men distracted staff at a Carphone Warehouse store, removing security devices fitted to Apple iPhones and swapped them with dummy phones.

Carlisle Crown Court was told that the gang then repeated the crime at a Vodafone store in the same shopping centre on the same day.

Lincolnshire Live reports that a woman could not remember stealing four trolleyloads full of shopping.

Magistrates decided to clear Tammy Ann Chapman of all four charges because she was on medication and claimed she could not remember any of the thefts from the Tesco Extra and Asda supermarkets.

The Swindon Advertiser reports that a serial shoplifter told police that he stole from a convenience store because a man had told him shoplifting was easy.

Marc Kevin Houston had 26 previous convictions – almost all of them for shoplifting – stole meat and cheese from a One Stop Shop in Pinehurst.

As reported on the Mail Online website, Australian self-service checkouts may soon offer ‘human conversation’ in a move to combat shoplifting in supermarkets.

Researchers from Queensland’s Univeristy of Technology believe the machines may soon offer personal greetings and friendly comments to guilt shoplifters out of stealing.