A SERIAL thief who focused shops throughout North Ayrshire throughout a two-year shoplifting spree has been jailed.
Toni-Ann Shaw confronted greater than a dozen prices stretching again to August 2020 – and the justice system lastly caught up with the 29-year-old at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court final month.
Shaw was discovered responsible of stealing a amount of meat from the Co-op in Kilwinning’s Main Street on August 10, 2020; she returned to the identical retailer on January 23 this yr, stealing a amount of alcohol.
In May final yr, she stole cosmetics from Lloyd’s Pharmacy in Main Street, Kilwinning, whereas on August 12, 2021 she stole razor blades from Superdrug in Saltcoats and alcohol from the city’s Sainsbury’s grocery store.
On August 15, she additionally lifted booze from Morrisons in Stevenston, whereas two days later she nicked alcohol from Asda in Irvine.
The subsequent day, Shaw illegally took candles from Hallmark Cards in Irvine’s Rivergate Shopping Centre.
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Shaw additionally admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive method in direction of a retail employee on the Rivergate Boots in October by threatening the feminine employees member with violence.
On the identical date she stole a amount of clothes, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste and deodorants from Poundland within the mall, and she or he additionally stole a amount of perfume units from Semi-Chem in High Street later that day.
On October 26, Shaw once more focused Boots in Irvine – this time stealing aftershave reward units.
And three days later she nicked detergent gadgets from the identical Poundland retailer in Irvine.
In January this yr, Shaw was discovered to have stolen extra perfume units from Boots, booze from Kilwinning’s Co-op, clothes from the Riverway Sports Direct, and steaks from the Co-op in Caldon Road.
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Meanwhile, on February 1, at Primark in Rivergate, she stole a amount of clothes.
The stealing spree continued into March and April, with Shaw shoplifting alcohol from Morrisons in Stevenston and Sainsbury’s in Irvine, in addition to perfume merchandise from the latter.
She was additionally discovered to have breached a bail order by coming into the Rivergate Shopping Centre when she was not permitted to take action.
Finally, on April 23, at Morrisons in Stevenston, Shaw was discovered responsible of shouting, swearing, performing in an aggressive method and battling retail employees.
Shaw, whose deal with was listed in courtroom papers as Fergushill Road in Kilwinning or Caldon Road in Irvine, will spend greater than a year-and-a-half behind bars.
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