Category Archives: Shoplifting

The LBC website shows CCTV footage of a brazen and prolific shoplifting gang who swarmed an East London branch of the Co-Op, stuffing plastic carrier bags with £1,500 worth of tobacco and alcohol, whilst the store’s security guard looked on, simply unable to stop them.

Kent Online carries a story of a wannabe actor who blamed the Tories after being caught on camera stealing £220 worth of alcohol from a branch of Waitrose in Hythe.

Mark Conway denied shoplifting – despite admitting he and a friend stole the items – and blamed “the looting Tories, who were the real criminals”.

The Belfast Telegraph reports that a mother accused of shoplifting on a near daily basis received up to $100,000 (£83k) selling the goods on eBay.

Deirdre McKeown travelled around N. Ireland stealing toys, beauty products and other items which she then immediately advertised on the auction website.

According to Glasgow’s Evening Times website, city centre police will be armed with body-cams in a bid to deter and catch festive shoplifters during one of Glasgow’s busiest shopping periods.
Images of shoplifters will be shared with retailers’ loss prevention officers, alerting them to potential criminal activity.

According to AOL News, police are recording more shoplifting offences than at any other time in the past 13 years, official figures have revealed.

Police recorded 336,505 shoplifting offences in the year ending in March – a 3% rise compared with the previous year.

The Express reports that a shoplifter – previously banned from a BP petrol station store – has been jailed for 10 months for trying to steal a ready meal by stuffing it down his trousers.

Neil Taylor was apprehended by a check-out assistant who became suspicious when she saw his jogging bottoms were “bulging”.