Summary
HIGH Street stores yesterday condemned plans to go soft on shoplifters, saying that the crime has leapt by 70 per cent since 2000.
Opportunist shoplifters can escape going to court following the introduction of on-the spot fines of Pounds 80 in 2004.See the full content of this document
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Don't Go Soft On Shoplifters, Stores Warn
However, proposals from advisers to the Home Office go further and suggest that even career shoplifters should escape a prison term.
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