Northampton shoplifter fails to make clean getaway after stealing...WASHING POWDER
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A serial shoplifter landed in jail for 14 weeks after stealing £40-worth of washing powder from a Northampton store.
John Anthony Shaw, aged 37, admitted taking Lenor, Bold and Ariel cleaning products to the value of £42.89 from Savers in Gold Street on May 9.
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Hide AdShaw, of Kingsley Road in the town, also pleaded guilty to taking more than £400 in goods from Morrison’s supermarket in Victoria Promenade during April.
Northampton magistrates sentenced him to seven weeks for each offence after hearing he had been jailed for a similar offence — stealing four bottles of Vodka from Lidl — in October last year and was subject to a post-sentence supervision order.
Sarah McCann, aged 33, of Campbell Street, Northampton, was given two seven-week sentences suspended for 18 months for stealing from Savers and from Morrison.
According to court documents, magistrates ruled their only option was a custodial sentence but suspended to allow support from probation services to continue.
Both were ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £128 and £85 prosecution costs.