Brazen laundry product thief targeted same Northumberland shop three times in four hours

South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court (Image: Newcastle Chronicle)

A brazen laundry product thief targeted the same Northumberland shop three times in four hours. Joseph Walker helped himself to a total of £109-worth of goods from the Co-op, in Blyth , in order to "repay a debt".

The 34-year-stole from the same store three times in quick succession but, on each occasion, was captured on CCTV. He was identified and arrested after the footage was handed to the police.

Walker, of Warwick Street, in Blyth, has now been hit in the pocket himself after he pleaded guilty to three counts of shop theft and was fined £40 and ordered to pay £109 compensation, £85 costs and a £16 victim surcharge. Jade Houston, prosecuting at South East Northumberland Magistrates' Court, said the offen