Category Archives: Shoplifting

The Express reports that serious crimes including burglary and shoplifting will be effectively de-criminalised and ignored by police as swingeing cuts to forces bite, according to a leaked memo.

At least one police force, Sussex, is warning that if further cuts go ahead officers will not respond to looters targeting shops and business premises – sparking a free-for-all for the thieves.

The Mirror reports that the daughter of Coronation Street actor Johnny Briggs has broken a ban that prevented her from entering every shop in Surrey after just six days of it being imposed.

Karen Briggs and her daughter were banned from all stores in the county after stealing alcohol from Marks & Spencer.

A pair have been jailed for 12 months for operating a business where one travelled around the county, stealing goods and then passed them on to his partner who sold them on his eBay account, for a 25% cut.

As police report an increase in high value thefts, Kent Online reports that a serial shoplifter has been banned from entering more than 100 stores in Swale.

Peter Beale, of Sittingbourne, was found guilty of six cases of shoplifting, including stealing a £99 trampoline from the town’s Asda.

A woman made more than £240,000 by selling stolen designer handbags online.

Anna Hindmarsh, 40, was found with a de-tagging magnet during her arrest in Stockport and a further investigation found she had used various eBay accounts to sell more than 1,000 high-value handbags over a four-year period.

According to Wales Online, a woman made £1,000 a month on eBay selling watches, sunglasses and other goods stolen from Swansea’s Debenhams store by her husband who was a security man there.

A jury has been told that 37-year-old Mari Richards used some of the cash to fund spa treatments in Bath and trips to the Ritz hotel and shopping sprees at Harrods in London.