Jail For Black Friday Thief

Wednesday, 1st December 2021 at 6:47pm

The York Press website reports that a thief who joined Black Friday shopping crowds in York to carry out a shoplifting raid will spend Christmas behind bars.

Maria Smith took clothing and perfume gift sets worth £363 at Fenwick and walked out with them without paying, before staff stopped her outside the department store.

Despite claiming she intended to do Christmas shopping, a judge dismissed this, saying Smith, “deliberately came to York to steal.”

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