Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Sun reports staggering statistics that reveal shoplifting cost Britain’s storekeepers £43million last year – or £826,000 a week.

Some £19million of the total was stolen by staff, with 7,455 theft cases.

The Essex Chronicle gives details of a gambling addict who embarked on a three-month shoplifting spree that netted her more than £8,000 of goods.

Joanna Daniszewska pleaded guilty to stealing high-end clothing from six different shops in Chelmsford, including Coast, Oasis and Phase Eight.

BBC News carried an interesting story of one woman’s compulsion to shoplift – which has dominated her life over a 20-year period.

For Laura – not her real name – it all began at the age of seven, when a friend’s parent asked her to hide items in her pocket while out shopping.

Kent Online reports that more than £50,000 of goods were stolen from shops in Maidstone town centre over two years.

Between December 2013 and November 2015, items worth £55,299.39 were shoplifted from some of the town’s main shopping areas, with over a third taken from just one shopping mall.

According to Get Surrey, the daughter and granddaughter of ex-Coronation Street actor Johnny Briggs, who have previously been given Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) for shoplifting, have been caught stealing again.

Emma Beach and her mother Karen Briggs admitted stealing perfume from Debenhams in Walton.

As reported in the Gloucester Citizen, a bodybuilding ‘addict’ has been banned from every Gloucester shop after terrorising traders for two years.

James Smith has 40 convictions for stealing items including protein powder and meat to feed his compulsion to work out every day.