Category Archives: Shoplifting

According to The Mirror, Sainsbury’s will soon be watching shoppers’ every move after installing extra CCTV at their self-service checkouts.

The supermarket – fed up with people slipping extra items into their bags – has fitted CCTV cameras and mirrors above the self-checkout tills in a new security scheme.

As reported in the Daily Star, a serial thief who regretted pilfering a posh handbag dropped it off at her local police station, accompanied by a handwritten note of apology.

Holly Finch – who suffers from kleptomania – went on a stealing spree in the Metrocentre, Newcastle, late in 2017 and her haul included a £295 Michael Kors bag.

According to the Eastern Daily Press, Sainsbury’s in North Walsham has banned all children wearing North Walsham High School uniform from entering its store, unless accompanied by an adult.

This drastic move follows several incidents of shoplifting at the store by pupils and has led to a Twitter backlash by angry parents.

Thieves operating in Wakefield have been warned they will be caught as police launch a new shoplifting drive, according to the Wakefield Express.

The Wakefield Central Neighbourhood Policing Team is taking a zero-tolerance approach to shop thefts in the city centre, warning offenders, ‘lift it – and we’ll lift you’.

As reported in the Liverpool Echo, a pair of brazen shoplifters left court while their trial was on a lunch break – to go on another thieving spree at shops nearby.

Robert Smith and Irene Jones even brought the goods they’d stolen from a nearby Iceland store and a pet shop with them back to the court.

Birmingham Live reports that the West Midlands Police Commissioner wants to provide heroin to hardened addicts in a bid to stop them carrying out burglaries, robberies and car thefts in the city.

By giving heroin to convicted addicts in a controlled medical setting, the aim is to ‘take the market away from organised criminals and stop people stealing to fund their addiction’.