Prolific shoplifter Lesley Crockett, 59, who racked up 217 offences since she began stealing as a teenager, avoids jail after a judge said locking her up was ‘not in the public interest’

/ Mike Buchanan

Here we go again (Mail, £). The (male) judge told Crockett – whose criminal record spans 45 years – it was the right time to give her a ‘chance’.

2 thoughts on “Prolific shoplifter Lesley Crockett, 59, who racked up 217 offences since she began stealing as a teenager, avoids jail after a judge said locking her up was ‘not in the public interest’”

  1. Beyond sickening for innumerable reasons!! Shoplifting is EPIDEMIC in nearly every community today. This horrible, sickening, thieving and rotten female makes me sick, as well as the misandrist, sexist and unjust judge!

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  2. And another example of the “Gender sentencing gap” as one of the comments rightly labels it. Can there be any doubt that a boyfriend who beat up his girlfriend due to a temper tantrum would be imprisoned? Female lifeguard battered boyfriend and drove over his mobile phone after he confessed to kissing another woman on a night out | Daily Mail Online Again the Police did the right thing but their work is undermined by the Courts. One can see why men wouldn’t think it worth reporting and Police be reluctant to put in the work. If nothing much results.

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