Thief Stole To Get Drug Treatment

Thursday, 23rd May 2019 at 6:19pm

According to the Grimsby Live website, a shoplifter with more than 150 convictions deliberately got caught again in a bid to jump a seven-month queue for drug treatment.

Jill Moore had finished a jail term and, after her release, tried to get help from an agency for her drug addiction.

However, she was told it would take seven months for treatment and so committed another theft as a way to “fast-track” herself, by getting arrested and drug-tested before being “referred on”.

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