‘Brazen’ shoplifter locked up

A ‘BRAZEN’ shoplifter was caught taking items out of shops on several occasions in bin bags and a pram.

Kelly Bates, 32, targeted Tesco and B&M stores in North Wales, Llandudno Magistrates Court heard.

A district judge has jailed her for 20 weeks after her crimes activated a suspended sentence.

The prosecution said mum-of-four Bates stole goods worth £150 from the B&M store in Holyhead in October.

She had ‘brazenly loaded items into black bin bags.’

Then days later she visited the Tesco in Holyhead on October 23.

She took items worth £123.28 away in an empty pram. She later left the pram at the scene. On October 29 she took £291 worth of items from her local Tesco.

Bates, of Ffordd Beibio, Holyhead, was later arrested and later pleaded guilty to shoplifting.