Name: Shoplifting at the highest level ever recorded
Uploaded: 2025-05-19T07:36:22.000Z
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: Shops are also thought to be spending around one point eight million pounds annually, installing anti-crime measures. Furthermore, the British Retail Consortium is now demanding more police resources allocated to tackle increasing levels of theft.

A Larne woman who stole goods worth £140 from Poundland in the town has been given a two-year conditional discharge.

Laura Clark (31), with an address given as Linn Road in the town, took the items on February 23 last year.

The defendant appeared at Ballymena Magistrates Court on Thursday, May 15, via video link from a rehab centre in Wales, where she has been since April 7 this year.