Overview
- Peterborough Magistrates' Court jailed Leah Harding, 37, for 41 weeks and ordered £882.26 in compensation after she admitted five counts of shop theft.
- Police say she stole 64 wholesale boxes of Cadbury Creme Eggs from Barn Garden Centre in Peterborough in February, with CCTV showing her carrying multiple boxes that typically hold five eggs each.
- Later that day she took about £300 worth of spirits from Dobbies Garden Centre in Hampton.
- She then targeted a Co-op in Eye on three visits for alcohol and cheese before her arrest in March, and officers recorded that she had no fixed address.
- PC Rebecca Risebrow of the Spree Offender Team called the behavior persistent and disruptive to local shops, underscoring a focus on identifying and prosecuting repeat offenders.