Shoplifter Jailed - Leigh-on-Sea

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police-01-2-1Leigh On Sea News: Shoplifter Jailed – A SHOPLIFTER has been jailed after he admitted committing 14 shop thefts in Southend and Westcliff.

Shoplifter Jailed - A SHOPLIFTER has been jailed after he admitted committing 14 shop thefts in Southend and Westcliff.

A SHOPLIFTER has been jailed after he admitted committing 14 shop thefts in Southend and Westcliff.

David Lindner, 30, of the Clarence Road area of Southend, was arrested by an officer from Southend Neighbourhood Policing Team who spotted him in the city’s Warrior Square on 13 April and knew he was wanted for shop theft.

He appeared before Southend magistrates the following day and admitted all thefts – committed between 8 December 2024 and 1 April 2025 – together with a charge of possession of an offensive weapon on 8 December 2024.

Lindner was jailed for a total of four months. Magistrates also ordered him to pay a £154 victim surcharge and that the knife be destroyed.

Between 1 January and 13 April 2025, 437 people were arrested on suspicion of shoplifting in Essex and 294 of those were charged with a total of 890 counts of shop theft, while 26 were charged with assaulting a retail worker, too.

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