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According to the Unilad website, a leading Police & Crime Commissioner has stated that short sentences do not work for a low-level crime like shoplifting.

Donna Jones believes that jail sentences should be reserved for violent crimes and sex offences, and that retailers should help fund thieves’ rehabilitation.

As reported on the Metro website, a grandmother has vowed to stop thieving and turn her life around.

Leanne Stapleton – accused of stealing more than £200-worth of toiletries – told a court, “I’m tired of it all now,” as she faced prison for another 15 crimes.

The Liverpool Echo website reports that a highly-paid managing director stole more than £250,000 from his employer, in a ‘brazen fraud, cleverly disguised by false accounting’.

Adrian Platt raised false purchase orders between is employers and his friend, Bernard Giam, who then produced invoices claiming his companies had supplied environmental consultancy services.

The Wales Online website reports that a Parcelforce driver stole 244 items in three months, selling them on eBay and netting him over £14,000.

Michal Biernacki stole mostly high-value electrical, cosmetic and designer clothing products, worth more than £31,000.

The Stoke-On-Trent Live website reports that a man stuffed a foil-lined suitcase with clothes in a branch of Sports Direct and tried to leave without paying.

Vasile Baboi told a court that he had simply wanted to send the clothes back home to his children in Romania.

The Chronicle Live website reports that a prolific shoplifter whose latest theft spree netted her £2,000 of make-up, toiletries and candles has finally been jailed.

With more than 50 previous convictions for theft, Suzanne Innes continued to steal from shops and ignore several court orders imposed on her.