Prolific shoplifter banned from wearing wigs

A prolific shoplifter has been banned from wearing wigs aft galore attempts to disguise herself portion committing thefts, constabulary said.

Hannah Roberts had donned a assortment of headpieces to get astir a shoplifting prohibition successful Gloucester metropolis centre.

The 33-year-old had been banned by the City Safe Scheme from entering immoderate subordinate shops but had repeatedly ignored the sanction.

When challenged by unit oregon information officers, Roberts had reportedly go abusive and tally disconnected with stolen items.

In an effort to get astir the ban, she had besides taken to wearing a assortment of wigs to disguise herself.

However, a distinctive tattoo connected her cervix meant that unit were capable to easy recognise her.

Now JPs astatine Gloucestershire Magistrates’ Court person handed her a transgression behaviour bid which bans her from entering the metropolis centre arsenic good arsenic immoderate shops participating successful the Gloucester City Safe scheme.

Roberts, of Nettleton Road, Gloucester, is besides prohibited from wearing a wig oregon hairpiece designed to alteration her quality erstwhile entering immoderate retail premises.

Police Constable Andy Plant, from Gloucestershire Police, said: “Our retail manufacture is suffering due to the fact that of these persistent shoplifters.

“Roberts has been the apical shoplifting offender successful the past fewer months, and we present person different instrumentality to woody with her successful the signifier of this transgression behaviour order.

“We volition proceed to enactment our businesses successful the metropolis and its surrounds by targeting shoplifters and obtaining further orders astatine tribunal wherever possible.”