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The criminal gangs behind the rise in shoplifting

9 March 2024

9:00 AM

9 March 2024

9:00 AM

‘She was dressing half of Brixton at one time.’ A former plumber from south London is recalling the pretty, well-groomed shoplifter of his youth. Expensively dressed, her favourite place to target was Selfridges. ‘I don’t know how she did it but she got everything. You put in an order and she’d get it.

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