Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Derby Telegraph reports that a serial shoplifter from Derby has been jailed after three thefts in a week.

Kyle Marshall targeted the same store twice in two days and a third just two days later. His first offence saw him steal cosmetics from the Newhall branch of Boots on May 9.

As reported in the Midweek Herald, a compulsive hoarder stole so much from a discount store where he worked, that police could barely get inside his home.

Stephen Pring stole so many beds, furniture, garden ornaments, kitchen units and electrical items from B&M in Exeter that the items filled every room of his home.

According to Gazette Live, Cleveland Police will no longer punish certain shoplifters.

The force has rolled out a new retail crime scheme – Operation Raptor – which means police officers are not automatically called to shops to deal with suspects caught stealing.

A story in the Manchester Evening News gives details of a ‘shoplifting’ woman who believed she’d been given a genuine job testing security systems at high-street stores.

A Devon woman was caught shoplifting from Boots and Wilkinsons in April and told police she had recently taken on the role of a ‘personal shoplifter’ – via a job ad on Facebook.

The Burton Mail reports that a young mother who hid stolen goods from a supermarket in her baby’s push chair has been criticised by a judge, and jailed.

Judge Jonathan Taaffe told Polish national Sandra Paczkowska that she was part of “an epidemic” of thieves and jailed her for 16 weeks.

The Telegraph carries a story of pensioners stealing £6,000 worth of magazines in year from a branch of high street chain WH Smith in Stirling.

It is reported that female thieves have been spotted on CCTV pinching magazines such as Take a Break, Chat and That’s Life, with men in their 60s and 70s being caught trying to conceal fly-fishing magazines and wrestling publications.