‘I stole to order’, £300-a-day former shoplifter tells BBC

7 comments

1. “if you see someone steal £300 of goods a day to fund their crack addiction, no you didn’t”

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3. “The government has promised new laws to tackle shoplifting”

   About time they made shoplifting illegal. 

4. I guess there’s a self defeating element where success in shoplifting brings on extra drug use, which has a devastating physical impact, which leads to shops preventing you from going in

5. Clean 5 months? Great, but still a good chance he will relapse.

6. Could have used some of that cash on a haircut that doesn’t scream “I’m on a list”

7. £300 a day? So he was earning £95,000+ a year tax free?