A mum who slashed two security guards with a Stanley knife after trying to steal children's clothes wept as she was sent to prison. Claire Newman left David Bailey needing 20 stitches in his arm, while she also injured his colleague Ian Grogan's hand.
The 34-year-old attacked the security guards at the Next store on New Mersey Shopping Park, in Liverpool, just over a month after twice stealing designer handbags from Selfridges in Manchester. She was jailed yesterday (May 31) following all three offences.
Prosecuting, Jonathan Duffy told Liverpool Crown Court that the two Next security guards had managed to stop Newman leaving the store, and wanted to take a picture of her so she could be banned from entering the shop again. But Newman soon became aggressive, the Liverpool Echo reports.
