A serial shoplifter has been jailed for 47 weeks after admitting to thefts from shops in Norwich.
Desmond O’Carroll, 26, of Motum Road, Norwich, appeared at Norwich Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday, where he pleaded guilty to 14 counts of retail theft and one count of stealing a bicycle.
He was also handed a three-year Criminal Behaviour Order banning him from entering the Tesco and Co-op stores in Earlham Green Lane.
O’Carroll was identified by shop staff and CCTV footage, which showed him concealing and taking items, including boxes of chocolates and Easter eggs.
He sometimes targeted the same shop multiple times in a single day.
O’Carroll also admitted to six additional offences, which were taken into consideration by the court after he engaged with Op Converter - the unit that investigates serial and acquisitive crime.
Lorraine Harrison, of the Norwich Operational Partnership Team, said: “We hope this prison term and CBO will serve to protect the stores he has targeted and help reassure businesses that we continue to take retail crime seriously.”
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