Category Archives: Shoplifting

As reported on the The Express website, police have sparked outrage after suggesting shop workers could detain thieves themselves with a “citizen’s arrest”.

This had lead to accusations that they are asking other people to do their jobs for them, putting shop owners and staff at risk.

As reported in The Mirror, a sweet shop owner in Bournemouth has put up posters of suspected shoplifters in his window.

John Keppie blew up images taken from CCTV cameras and stuck the them in the window with the word ‘THIEF’ printed above each image in large capital letters.

According to The Sun, a thief gained 18,000 fans on Instagram by posting videos of himself shoplifting.

In one video, the man calmly enters an Iceland store before he quickly snatches a huge box of what looks like Diet Coke, and darts out of the store.

Tayside’s top police officer revealed a 23% increase of shoplifting offences in Angus and blamed the rise on increasing poverty.

Chief Superintendent Paul Anderson said: “Food and alcohol are the most commonly stolen items and there is an indication that this increase correlates with increasing levels of poverty.”

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.