A woman who shoplifted nationwide on an 'industrial scale' and cheated hundreds of High Street stores into giving her refunds for goods she never bought has been warned to expect a long jail sentence.
A woman who shoplifted nationwide on an "industrial scale" and cheated hundreds of High Street stores into giving her refunds for goods she never bought has been warned to expect a long jail sentence.Narinder Kaur, from Chippenham, was found guilty on March 10 of 14 offences of fraud, two of money laundering, four of possessing the proceeds of crime, one of conspiracy to defraud and four of perverting the course of justice.
He said Kaur had"made a career out of deceiving retailers into handing over substantial sums to her for the return of items that she had not purchased". Mr Weetman said that when she was finally arrested and charged with wholesale offending Kaur was not deterred and continued her life of crime by lying to courts to get her bail conditions amended so she could go out stealing and claiming refunds again.
Mr Weetman told how Kaur had discovered several years ago that"there was a way that she could make a comfortable income from shoplifting". "The police uncovered evidence of an extraordinary campaign by this defendant, over several years, against many of the nation’s most well-known retailers. A campaign that took her across the country, and to hundreds of different stores. It was, in reality, her full-time job. And it was a job she worked very hard at and that in turn was very lucrative for her.
Kaur visited many branches of Monsoon, incuding those at Warrington, Colney, Broughton, Maidenhead, Stafford, Birmingham, Bristol, Trowbridge, Basingstoke, Reading, Bridgend, Yeovil, Telford, Watford, Cardiff, Shrewsbury and Milton Keynes and obtained £26,000 worth of refunds - but her expenditure was only £5,200.
Homebase stores yielded £3,623 in refunds although Kaur only spent £384 in them. At M&S stores in Swindon, Chippenham and Bristol she obtained refunds of £3,300 with 37 credit vouchers for returned goods. In Dunelm in Swindon - when she was supposedly having a medical procedure - she raised suspicions when she tried to get a refund and was arrested. Her home was searched and police found 49 shopping bags full of goods and £108,000 in cash.
Anthony Montgomery, defending, said Kaur has already had a lengthy period in custody on remand and later had been on bail but had not offended again in that time.
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