A shoplifter in Nottinghamshire who “persistently ignored” a court order banning him from a community’s Co-op store has been jailed.
Prolific thief, Steven McKinley, was prohibited from entering the store in Farnborough Road, Clifton, under the terms of a criminal behaviour order (CBO) imposed on him in February last year.
However, McKinley flouted the order on eight occasions in order to steal during January of this year alone.
Nottinghamshire neighbourhood police and shop security teams said they worked together to put a stop to his offending and place him before the courts again. At Nottingham Magistrates’ Court last week he was locked up for eight months.
The 30-year-old, from Nottingham, pleaded guilty to eight counts of breaching a CBO and eight counts of shop theft.
Police Constable Jane Gibson, of the Clifton neighbourhood policing team, said: “Help is available to shoplifters who want to get out of their cycle of offending.
“However, if they refuse to engage and continue to steal and breach orders we will continue to arrest them, charge them and place them before the courts.
“Shoplifting is a blight on communities and we understand how dispiriting it can be for store staff to be targeted by offenders like McKinley. I hope this prison sentence gives them some respite from his persistent stealing.”
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