Category Archives: Shoplifting

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”.

Major high street retailers in the UK should be bracing for impact as shoplifters are set to significantly erode their profits in the run-up to the busy Christmas shopping period, with dishonest shoppers and employees stealing merchandise totalling 38% of losses incurred over the entire year.

Swindon became the latest target for a travelling Romanian shoplifter who stole more than £700 of goods from Waitrose.

Alexandru Ciurez of Woodford Green, Essex – and a fellow Romanian national – both pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing items on October 25, to the value of £735.10.

Kim Farry, branded Britain’s most shameless shoplifter, has reportedly threatened to go back to her criminal ways just months after she offered to help stores stop theft, according to The Mirror.

The grandmother, 55, has admitted she isn’t content with her £15,000 yearly benefit money and warned if she doesn’t get a job soon she’ll go back to shoplifting.

The Telegraph reports that a shoplifter has been prosecuted for stealing £60 of washing-up goods – after she was caught fleeing a Savers store on Google Street View.

Whilst her face had been blurred out by Google, Cleveland Police identified Tammy McIvor from her distinctive white outfit, which she was wearing when she was arrested.