Mothers are shoplifting to feed their kids during the cost of living crisis as official crime figures show ‘theft from shops’ has soared by 100% in just a year.
Labour finance spokesman, Ged Nash, said that people are stealing in an effort to keep costs down because they can’t afford the rising bills they are faced with every week. One example last week saw a woman prosecuted in Drogheda District Court for allegedly stealing €180 worth of food and clothes from her local Marks & Spencer.
The Irish Mirror can now reveal that the numbers are up across all of the Garda divisions. Gardai have told the Irish Mirror that the rise in so-called ‘poverty-related crime’ is on the up because poorer families feeling the squeeze.
