A sweet-toothed crook terrorised a number of shops in a seaside town during a three-week shoplifting spree.
Darren McCaul appeared before magistrates accused of stealing multiple items from Tesco, One Stop and Iceland in Fleetwood between March 29 and April 18 this year. Police were called out to a shop in the Lancashire town, a few miles north of Blackpool, last Thursday after reports of a man shoplifting.
The 32-year-old was soon apprehended on a nearby street and was later charged with nine shoplifting offences. McCaul, of no fixed address, was sentenced last Friday and handed 10 months in prison, report LancashireLive.
Court documents showed that the criminal targeted the Iceland store on Lord Street on March 29 and stole a total of 86 Crème Eggs, worth £56. The next day, he returned to the shop in the morning and stole cold meats before going back in the afternoon and stealing further cold meats.
On April 1, McCaul stole a crate containing two boxes of alcohol from One Stop Stores on Poulton Road worth £30. The Tesco Express in Hatfield Avenue was then targeted on on April 9 and McCaul stole three tubs of Celebrations valued at £32.
Three days later he stole several boxes of laundry detergent worth £32 from One Stop Stores and then on April 14 he pinched several boxes of dog food worth £20 from the same premises. He went back to the store on April 16 to steal another £30 of dog food and then finally stole seven packs of sausages and a slush drink worth £32.50 from Iceland on April 18.