Shoplifter jailed after stealing steaks worth over £250 in Peterborough
Sixty-three year old Malcolm Ravenhill took the meat from the Co-op in Orton Goldhay, just six days after being given a suspended sentence for other thefts.
A prolific shoplifter has been jailed after stealing meat from a Peterborough supermarket just days after being handed a suspended sentence.
Malcolm Ravenhill selected steaks worth more than £250, before hiding them in the rear of the scooter and leaving the shop.
The theft came six days after Ravenhill was handed a suspended sentence at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court having admitted eight other counts of theft from a shop.
He was identified via CCTV footage and arrested at his home in Dogsthorpe Road.
On Wednesday (10 September) at the same court he admitted the new count of theft and was jailed for a year.
PC Sam Malton, from the Spree Offender Team, said: “Ravenhill is a prolific offender who clearly didn’t learn his lesson having been given a suspended sentence less than a week before this offence."