Repeat shoplifter stole goods worth almost £2k from store

A MOTHER-OF-SIX kept targeting the same store to steal towels.

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Nottingham Crown Court was told that, over a year of offending, repeat thief Eileen Cash took almost £2,000-worth of goods from Homesense at Castle Marina Retail Park.

On one day alone, having failed to walk out with a £250 vacuum cleaner, the 32-year-old tried her luck at TK Maxx in Chilwell instead.

The Basford mum's own barrister told the sentencing hearing that her client "can't give a huge explanation as to why she continued to commit these offences".

Imposing a six-month jail term, suspended for two years, Judge Nirmal Shant KC said: "Eileen Cash, you may be one of those who think stealing from shops does not cause damage.

"It does, because in the end it is members of the public who pay. It is not one of those crimes where there is no victim.