Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Daily Mirror reports that England and Wales saw 327,925 cases of shoplifting in the year up to and including June 2015 – one for every 176 residents – with Lincoln taking the unenviable crown of the shoplifting capital.

The Western Daily Press reports that a serial shoplifter is facing the prospect of doing ‘Porridge’ after stealing four candles.

Sonia Stevenson has pleaded guilty to a series of thefts including four Yankee candles worth £80 in Plymouth, Devon.

Carlisle’s News & Star reports that a serial shoplifter struck seven times during a pre-Christmas spree on December 10 2015.

Magistrates heard that Sian Baker-Douglas was in the throes of a £200-a-day heroin habit when she struck at Fat Face, Marks & Spencer, Clinton Cards, Wilko and River Island in Carlisle city centre.

Detectives in South London have appealed for help in identifying a thief riding a hoverboard in a Co-Op store, according to The Guardian.

The man entered the store in Mitcham and travelled round the aisles before casually leaving with a crate of Lucozade in his arms.

A woman has been jailed after she “systematically” stole £10,000 worth of stock from a Cambridge clothes shop and then sold it on eBay.

Madeline Stock has been locked up for four months after she sold off stock from clothing store Warehouse over a period of two years.

A trader plagued by thieves is launching an online petition – to have the word ‘shoplifting’ banned, according to Cambridge News. Neil Mackay, who has had electrical equipment and other stock stolen from his shop, believes the crime is not taken seriously enough.

He is calling on organisations and individuals to stop using the word ‘shoplifting’, and subsititute ‘shop theft’ instead.