SHOPLIFTER JAILED

A 40-year-old man has been jailed for 14 months following a three month shoplifting spree. Leeroy Simpson, of Croft Avenue in Long Eaton, pleaded guilty to breaching a criminal behaviour order and ten shop thefts at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday 9th June. The shoplifter’s haul included 16 bottles of self-tan, beef steaks and boxes of washing powder, in a series of thefts he committed between 16th February and 1st May.

Simpson stole from the Co-op on Bracebridge Drive four times, once on 18th April, twice on 19th April and once on 1st May. His other targets were Sainsbury’s in Watnall Road in Hucknall on 16th February, Go Outdoors on Mansfield Road in Daybrook on 25th February, Superdrug in Main Street in Bulwell on 19th March, Heron in Bracebridge Drive in Broxtowe on 23rd April, McColls in Broxtowe Lane in Broxtowe on 24th April and Wollaton Vale Service Station in Wollaton Vale, Wollaton, on 1st May. PC Keith Parkes of Nottinghamshire Police said: 

“Simpson has repeatedly helped himself to goods from shops at the expense of the business owners. We know what an impact shoplifting can have on businesses in our community, which is why I’m pleased we have been able to put Simpson before the courts to answer for his actions. I'm happy with the outcome today and hope it shows that crime does not pay.”