{"id":412034,"date":"2025-09-10T02:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412034\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:44:25","slug":"sorry-looking-burglar-smashed-into-shop-to-steal-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412034\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry-looking burglar smashed into shop to steal cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His punishment should encourage him to mend his ways<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_Grant-Turner-custody-image.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Turner has been jailed after stealing cigarettes from a convenience store \" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Grant Turner has been jailed after stealing cigarettes from a convenience store (Image: Avon and Somerset Police )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A man from Bristol who stole a large quantity of cigarettes from a convenience store has been jailed and must pay hundreds of pounds in compensation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Grant Turner, 38 and of Winchester Road, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/brislington\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Brislington<\/a>, admitted burglary and was sentenced at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/north-somerset\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">North Somerset<\/a> Magistrates&#8217; Court on Tuesday, September 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">He will pay \u00a32,146 in compensation to the operators of the store Locking Road, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/weston-super-mare\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Weston-super-Mare<\/a>, which he broke into on Thursday, July 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Turner was also sentenced to six months in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">PC Ben Marshall, of the North Somerset neighbourhood policing team, said: \u201cWe quickly picked up this investigation which led to a timely arrest and charge of Turner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe victim was awarded compensation, and this case demonstrates effective partnership working and proactive policing by the neighbourhood team, which will reassure the business community we take offences like this seriously.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757472265_93_0_Grant-Turner-custody-image.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Turner has been jailed after stealing cigarettes from a convenience store \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>A forlorn-looking Grant Turner who stole cigarettes from a convenience store (Image: Avon and Somerset Police )<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThe impact of theft and threatening behaviour on retailers \u2013 especially small businesses \u2013 cannot be underestimated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Not only does it have a knock-on effect on the running of a business, which may have economic implications for the wider community, but it can cause harassment, alarm and distress to business owners and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His punishment should encourage him to mend his waysGrant Turner has been jailed after stealing cigarettes from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,9420,381,748,30,188,393,4884,956,16,15,11158],"class_list":{"0":"post-412034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-brislington","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-north-somerset","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-weston-super-mare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115177708944507512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}