Police arresting alleged shoplifter detain second man while leaving same shop

Officers arresting a antheral with a rucksack afloat of over-the-counter medicine detained a 2nd idiosyncratic successful the aforesaid store for allegedly stealing meat.

The officers were connected their mode to enactment erstwhile they arrested the archetypal antheral connected suspicion of shoplifting from a Sainsbury's store successful Bethnal Green, eastbound London.

The Metropolitan Police's Tower Hamlets portion said the antheral was recovered with 39 boxes of over-the-counter medication, and 13 bars of chocolate, worthy a full of £280.

Officers were astir to permission the store with the antheral erstwhile they made a 2nd apprehension - of a antheral allegedly attempting to bargain implicit £50 of meat.

Both men were charged and remanded successful custody to look successful court.

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It comes arsenic an exclusive Sky News and Association of Convenience Stores survey revealed that 80% of shopkeepers reported a retail transgression wrong a week successful October.

The canvass besides recovered 94% of shopkeepers accidental that successful their experience, shoplifting has got worse implicit the past year, with 83% not assured the constabulary volition instrumentality enactment against the perpetrators of retail transgression connected their premises.