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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Nick Tyrrell

Mum weeps after slashing Next workers who stopped her stealing baby clothes

A mum stabbed two security guards as they tried to stop her stealing children’s clothes from a Next shop in Liverpool.

Claire Newman slashed David Bailey with a Stanley knife in the chain’s New Mersey Shopping Park store, leaving him needing 20 stitches in his arm. Mr Bailey’s colleague Ian Grogan was also injured by Newman after she injured his hand with the blade.

The 34 year old wept today as a judge jailed her for the attacks on March 9 and a pair of thefts in which she stole designer handbags from the Selfridges in Manchester and assault a security guard there as well.

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