Prolific shoplifter caught on CCTV stealing almost £2,000 of goods including five vacuum cleaners
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Video (click to play above) shows the moment when a brazen thief walked out of a store with a stolen vacuum cleaner. Michael King, 44, of no fixed address, was captured on CCTV stealing the electrical items from a Sainsbury’s store - on five separate occasions in July.
He also stole groceries from BP and Waitrose - and in total he walked away with £1,948 of goods from businesses across Ely in Cambridgeshire.
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Hide AdAt Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (10 September), King, was sentenced to 32 weeks in prison after pleading guilty to 11 counts of shop lifting and activating a previous suspended sentence.
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