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Boy who went on £100,000 shoplifting spree banned from entering Holland and Barrett and Boots

The Independent·Ellie Crabbe·25 days ago
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A teenage boy who went on a more than £100,000 shoplifting spree has been told by a magistrate to “seize this opportunity” to turn his life around as they spared him jail. The boy has also been banned him from entering Holland and Barrett and Boots stores, court officials said. The 17-year-old pinched cosmetics from the shelves in dozens of raids in the London branches of high street giants Boots and Holland and Barrett over the last two years, magistrates at Highbury Corner Youth Court previously heard. The teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, previously pleaded guilty to 15 counts of theft – which included 11 counts where he took goods valued at £59,280.07 from Boots. He had been charged with 56 counts of shoplifting from Boots, the court was previously told, and the offences were to be taken into consideration.…

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