Ridiculous. From the article:

“She was handed an an 18 month suspended prison sentence and will have to repay Sainsbury’s £1,800 – just over 15 per cent of what she stole…

Sentencing Al Said, Judge Gary Lucie said: ‘You stole almost £12,000 in a period of about a year in this campaign of theft…

‘This was a campaign of high value shoplifting over nine months. But you have shown what I consider to be genuine remorse…

‘Considering the value of the theft, I find a period of 44 weeks custody to be justified, but suspended for 18 months.’ “

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