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PRISON IN STORE FOR SHOPLIFTERS

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November 23, 2025

Surge in jail sentences as war declared on epidemic

- by DAVID DUBAS-FISHER & DOMINIK LEMANSKI

PRISON IN STORE FOR SHOPLIFTERS

THE number of shoplifters being nicked has surged - and they're going behind bars for longer, an exclusive Daily Star Sunday investigation has revealed.

We discovered there were 44,300 convictions in the year ending June 2025.

That's ratcheted up from 35,300 a year earlier, and is nearly as high as the 44,700 convictions in the year ending June 2018.

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