Category Archives: Shoplifting

A pair of ‘modern day Fagins’ ran a team of shoplifters targeting retail shops in Birmingham and then sold the stolen items on eBay.

Partners Nicola Wilcox and David Carroll took a huge bounty of stock from a six-strong group of thieves and are estimated to have made more than £40,000 over two years.

As reported on Mail Online, a prolific thief who was deported from the UK for shoplifting simply returned to the country and resumed his life of crime.

Eriks Gindra – who had racked up convictions in Nottingham, Doncaster, Leeds, Barnsley and Huddersfield – was kicked out of Britain four years ago.

As reported in The Sun, a recent study found that shoplifting cost the UK’s economy £6.3billion last year, equating to £270 for each household.

The study saw that shop theft had rocketed due to a rising number of criminals addicted to narcotics and psychoactive substances such as spice.

The This Is Lancashire website reports that a persistent shoplifter has been banned from every shop in Accrington town centre.
John Crabtree has been convicted of 16 offences of shoplifting already this year, and local police hit out at the impact shoplifters like Crabtree have on the area.

iNews reports that shoplifting has hit a five-year high in Scotland as people resort to stealing food from supermarkets, according to police statistics.

Figures published by Police Scotland show that shoplifting has increased by almost 10 per cent in the past year, with 31,321 crimes recorded.

A Guardian article explores the murky exploits of first-time and seasoned shoplifters, as items stolen at self-service tills increased to more than £3bn in 2017.
Some scams have names – “the banana trick”, “the switcheroo” and “sweethearting”, although there are so many techniques in practice that not all of them do.