Shoplifter, 47, avoids jail over breaching stores ban to steal fish, chocolate and coffee from Northampton supermarkets

Magistrates hand down 17 suspended sentences totalling 52 weeks
By Kevin Nicholls
Published 14th Feb 2022, 09:50 BST
Updated 14th Feb 2022, 09:50 BST
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A serial shoplifter avoided jail after taking groceries including £83 worth of fish, meat, chocolate and coffee from four Northampton supermarkets where he was already banned by a court order.

Paul Poyser, aged 47, was given 17 suspended sentences totalling 52 weeks after pleading guilty to theft and breaching criminal behaviour orders at Northampton Magistrates Court on Monday (February 7). His haul included:

■ Chicken totalling £90

Poyser told goods totalling £427.39 from shops — despite being banned from entering three Co-Ops and a Nisa storePoyser told goods totalling £427.39 from shops — despite being banned from entering three Co-Ops and a Nisa store
Poyser told goods totalling £427.39 from shops — despite being banned from entering three Co-Ops and a Nisa store

■ Sandwiches, snacks, Red Bull

■ £83 worth of fish

■ Cooked meat

■ Ten jars of Nescafe

■ Cheese

■ Razors

■ Eight big bars of Cadbury chocolate

■ Lenor and more coffee toalling £77.40

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Poyster, of Treetops in the Goldings neighbourhood, targeted three Co-Op stores in Parklands, Wootton and Rectory Farm plus a local Nisa Supermarket despite being prohibited from entering all four stores under orders issued in 2019.

He also stole from Tesco and Boots stores in the town, all between between March and November 2021.

Magistrates handed down sentences of up to four weeks in prison all suspended for two years, ordered Poyser to take part in a rehabilitation programme — and told him to pay compensation of £429.39 for the stolen goods.