Britain's most prolific shoplifter
Glen Stacey has walked free from court despite clocking up 400 offences.
The 56-year-old bit the security tag
off a leg of lamb and hid a copy of Grazia magazine in his bag at his local
Aldi supermarket.
He had planned to give the magazine
to his girlfriend as a gift and sell the meat.
Blackpool magistrates were told he
had 281 previous convictions and that the latest theft marked the 400th time he
had been caught shoplifting.
Stacey became Britain's most
prolific thief earlier this year when he overtook Robert Knowles, 68, from
Plymouth. Knowles had clocked up 350 offences by the time he was jailed in July
for stealing a pair of M&S trousers.
District Judge, Jeff Brailsford,
gave Stacey, of Blackpool, a 28-day jail term suspended for six months, telling
him: "I might have hoped when you got to 281 convictions, you might have
thought about stopping."
Prosecutor, Pam Smith, told
magistrates: "The defendant has a very extensive record for similar
offending."
Knowles, who has clocked up 350
offences, was jailed in July for stealing a pair of M&S trousers - which he
complained were too small when police found him wearing them.
But Stacey, of South Shore,
Lancashire, escaped with a suspended prison sentence despite his appalling
record and breaching a CRASBO (criminal anti-social behaviour order).
That had banned him from entering
Blackpool town centre because of his record.
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