Category Archives: Shoplifting

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.

According to the Mirror, a primary school teacher who was being hunted by Asda for her prolific shoplifting has been caught after appearing on TV’s Come Dine With Me.

Supermarket staff at her local Asda branch spotted Sophie Hunter-Brown in a re-run of the popular Channel 4 show.

Shocking news from the Retail Times, as it reveals that UK retailers lost more than £800 million to shoplifting in 2014.

Small and high resale value items, were again among the most stolen, with fashion accessories, power tools, mobile device accessories, wine and spirits, and razor blades top of shoplifters’ ‘wishlists’.

The Mail reports that a former Israeli basketball star accused of stealing designer bags worth more than £30,000 from Harrods told a court he was so rich that he didn’t need to steal.

Dov Herman, is accused of taking a £2,800 Christian Dior, a £17,000 Prada and a £11,890 Yves Saint Laurent bag in three separate trips to the high-end London store.