A woman has been jailed after a shoplifting spree – including from the Waterstones book shop in George Street in Hove – and for an assault.
Amy Jones, 31, of no fixed address, stole goods worth more than £2,000 over two months last summer when she targeted various shops on 18 occasions.
She also assaulted a security guard at a branch of Marks and Spencer, in Montague Street, Worthing, on Monday 10 July.
Jones, formerly of Chesswood Road, Worthing, and Marine Place, Worthing, was jailed for a year by Recorder James Hay at Brighton Crown Court on Friday 15 December.
Sussex Police said that Jones targeted
- Waterstones, in George Street, Hove
- the Co-op, in Ham Road, Shoreham
- the Co-op, in High Street, Shoreham
- the Co-op, in Plaza Parade, Worthing
- the Co-op, in Rowlands Road, Worthing
- the Co-op, in South Street, Worthing
- Marks and Spencer, in Montague Street, Worthing
- Tesco Express, in Goring Road, Worthing
Jones was also handed a three-year criminal behaviour order (CBO) and was ordered to pay £187 compensation when she appeared at Brighton Crown Court.
Sergeant Sam Milsom, from Sussex Police, said: “We take shoplifting very seriously and those who think they can get away with it will be sentenced.
“The team worked really hard to collate all of the incidents and this wouldn’t have happened without their persistence.”
TOOK LONG ENOUGH FOR THE OLD BILL TO CATCH I JUST WENT IN BOOTS BRIGHTON TO SEE IF I COULD GET AN INHALER FOR MY FRIEND WHO IS OFF TO SRI LANKA TOMORROW AND HER PHARMACY IS A BIT CRAP , THE SECURITY BLOKE BOOTS , CLOCK TOWET FOLLOWED ME ROUND THE SHOP , WHILE SOMEONE ELSE WAS PROBABLY EMPTYING THE SHELVES HE PROFILED ME
He was, no doubt, profiling your English grammar, spelling and punctuation. Three strikes there.
If you talk the way you type, I’d have security follow you around as well, to be honest.
Ignore these two sneering goons Michael.
It says more about them that they would rather attack you for your grammar than make any comment about the actual topic at hand.
Nah, his comments are usually just as irreverent. How you say something is just as important.
His story about trying to obtain prescription meds for someone else tells me that he 100% got refused, because that’s not how that works, probably kicked off in the store since he clearly has a problem articulating himself based on his other comments, then security followed him around to make sure he behaved himself.
Basically, if he got profiled, it was profiled as being “a bit of a knob.” 🙃
Well give us some more details. What was it about yourself that made them profile you. Slack jaw, joggers ect ect ?
Scum.