A prolific shoplifter who stole almost £60 worth of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs has been jailed for nine weeks. Scott McSpadden, 40, entered a Tesco in Wisbech, Cambs where he picked up £59.40 worth of the chocolate eggs and left without making any
A man has admitted stealing a gold toilet worth £4.8million from Blenheim Palace. The 18-carat toilet was taken in 2019 while featuring in an art exhibition at the ancestral home of Winston Churchill in Oxfordshire. James Sheen yesterday pleaded guilty to burglary
A callous drug addict who murdered his friend before returning to his house to steal his labradoodle has been jailed for a minimum of 19 years Ian Connell, 39, strangled Donald Prentice Patience, 45, after he refused to give him more money
A shop thief has been jailed following a massive six-month spree during which police believe he struck supermarkets more than 500 times. Samad Ali is believed to have stolen up to £18,000 worth of items from supermarkets across the West Midlands. Ali,
A man has been jailed after going on a rampage snatching dummies from babies’ mouths. Josh Guilder was identified as the prolific dummy thief by police in Harlow, Essex, after four incidents were reported. The 23-year-old’s spate of offending took place between
To kick off Glaucoma Awareness Month in January, experts are setting the record straight on some common myths about what the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) calls the “silent thief of sight.” Approximately three million Americans have glaucoma. Yet only half of
Andrew Merritt robbed an 88-year-old pensioner confined to a mobility scooter of £1,100, a court heard. The prolific and twisted thief had initially approached the elderly man to ask if he could spare any change for him. When the kind pensioner handed
Andrew Merritt, 34, asked the 88-year-old victim if he could spare a couple of pounds and the kind pensioner took out his wallet and gave him £3.10. CCTV showed Merritt hugging the elderly man before grabbing his wallet and walking away smiling.
A crime-fighting mom in the U.K. who helped shine a spotlight on a prolific bike thief said she is “frustrated” that the man received “a slap on the wrist” for his crimes. “[I] was really frustrated that he just got what amounts
A phone thief exposed a man who had been allegedly cheating on his pregnant girlfriend. Carlos, the boyfriend, was traveling for work when his phone was stolen in a street robbery back in September. Having stolen the phone, the thief is said