Thieving mums' £4k spree

TWO mums who stole thousands of pounds worth of clothes in a shop-lifting spree at Zara have been spared immediate jail.

- CARL JACKSON News Reporter

Tracey Lamb, 47, and Joanna Braker, 46 targeted the store at Touchwood in Solihull on multiple occasions.

The pair, who have numerous previous convictions for stealing, also went along with Rachel Edwards, 54, who used an empty pushchair as a distraction.

In total the three woman, all from Leicestershire, took £4,867.27 of clothes between them.

Lamb, of Bushby, admitted three charges of theft and one count of attempted theft while Braker, of Leicester, pleaded guilty to two theft offences and one attempted theft.

At Birmingham Crown Court, they both received 30 weeks suspended for 21 months and were each ordered to carry out 20 days of rehabilitation activity.