Debenhams shoplifting mum who hid aftershave in her baby's pram avoids immediate jail at Leeds Crown Court

A shoplifter who used her baby and young daughter as  'criminal accessories' has been handed a suspended prison sentence.
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Leeds Crown Court heard Rose Jedynak lied to police after she was arrested and claimed to be her disabled sister in a bid to get a lighter sentence.

Jedynak was pushing one child in a pram and also had her ten-year-old daughter with her when she stole from Debenhams at Trinity Walk in Wakefield.

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Prosecutor, Jessica Randell said Jedynak, 29, took three bottles of men's aftershave worth £223 and placed them in a basket carried by her daughter.

Rose Jedynak stole from stores at Trinity Walk shopping centre in WakefieldRose Jedynak stole from stores at Trinity Walk shopping centre in Wakefield
Rose Jedynak stole from stores at Trinity Walk shopping centre in Wakefield

Miss Randell said Jedynak went to the changing rooms and put the aftershave bottles in the pram during the incident on January 4.

Security guards challenged Jedynak as she left the store and she said she had taken the aftershave as it was her boyfriend's birthday.

The court heard Jedynak was banned from Sainsbury's at Trinity Walk in Wakefield but went there to steal on January 24.

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Miss Randell said Jedynak stole meat worth £14.40 and returned three days later and stole £11.60 worth of food.

On April 24, Jedynak left Asda on Asdale Road in Wakefield without paying for £239.60 worth of items in her trolley.

Miss Randell said Jedynak was challenged and became abusive to store staff, saying her daughter must have thrown the receipt in the bin.

Police were called and Jedynak claimed she was her disabled sister and handed officers a bank card in her sister's name.

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Jedynak's sister's carer told police it could not have been her as she needs daily assistance and would have been with the carer on the day of the theft.

Miss Randell said: "She intended to go to court as her sister to receive a lighter sentence."

While on police bail, Jedynak stole items worth £279 from the same Asda store before being challenged by security and arrested by police.

Jedynak, of Starbeck Road, Wakefield, admitted perverting the course of justice, five charges of theft and failing to surrender to custody.

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Judge Robin Mairs told Jedynak: "It was a mean and despicable thing to do, to take your children shoplifting with you. You used them as criminal accessories."

Judge Mairs handed Jedynak a 40 week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months plus 20 rehabilitation activity days.

And Judge Mairs said Jedynak must comply with an exclusion zone, banning her from the shops she stole from.

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