A prolific shoplifter has been jailed and banned from a number of local stores as police crack down on repeat offenders. Dale Tainton, of no fixed abode, admitted stealing from the Co-op in Ruddington on January 7.
The 45-year-old had a magnetic de-tagging device when neighbourhood police officers caught him. Tainton was jailed for eight weeks after pleading guilty to shoplifting and going equipped to steal when he appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on January 16.
Tainton, who has a long history of theft offences, was also made the subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO), which bans him from entering any Co-op store in Ruddington, Keyworth, West Bridgford or Cotgrave. The order lasts for three years and if Tainton breaches it he is committing a criminal offence.
