Category Archives: Shoplifting

SomersetLive reports that a former mayor of Bruton and town councillor has admitted in court that he shoplifted after descending into a spiral of depression.

Alex Rubbo had started drinking in a bid to self-medicate his problems and then helped himself to cigarettes and alcohol from the branch of Spar where he was working.

The Daily Post reports that a brazen shoplifter who filled a supermarket trolley to the brim with meat and left without paying, has been jailed for 18 weeks – “the only sentence to protect shopkeepers”, according to the prosecuting magistrate.

According to the Heart website, a couple who stole more than £100,000 pounds worth of designer clothes across the UK have been jailed.

Ionut and Mirela Vasile struck at luxury outlets Louis Vuitton, Harvey Nichols and Burberry, with CCTV footage showing them pulling off a shoplifting scam in Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Nottingham and Milton Keynes.

According to The Sun, a 79-year-old great grandmother began a five-year shoplifting spree – because she was bored.

June Humphreys has clocked up her 39th theft, after starting to steal in her seventies to get out of her home in Crewe, travelling on her free bus pass to swipe hundreds of pounds of goods.

The Bristol Post reports that when a shoplifter was stopped by police in possession of almost £1,000-worth of goods, he told them he wanted to give out presents like Santa.

Simon Thyer was detained by officers as he wheeled a trolley from Marks and Spencer, loaded with gifts, clothes and food.

As reported on the This Is Lancashire website, a trio of shoplifters who used foil-lined bags to steal more than £3,000 worth of electrical items and other goods from East Lancashire supermarkets have each been jailed for 20 months.

Police discovered an array of electrical goods in a Ford Focus being driven on the M6 toll road.