A prolific shoplifter left court and returned to his life of crime just days later. Malcolm Ravenhill, 63, went to Co-op in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough , on a mobility scooter on September 2 at about 10.50am.

Ravenhill selected steaks worth more than £250, before hiding them in the rear of the scooter and leaving the shop. The theft came six days after Ravenhill was handed a suspended sentence at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court having admitted eight other counts of theft from a shop.

He was identified via CCTV footage and arrested at his home in Dogsthorpe Road. On Wednesday, September 11, at the same court he admitted the new count of theft and was jailed for a year.

PC Sam Malton, from the Spree Offender Team, said: “Ravenhill is a prolific offender who clearly didn’t learn his less

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