Woman who calls herself ‘UK’s poshest thief’ fined for stealing Le Creuset cookware

Le Creuset pots. Al Said, a former university criminology lecturer, was found to have taken cookware as well as a condiment set. Photograph: Arturo Olmos/The Guardian

A former criminology lecturer who calls herself the “UK’s poshest thief” has been fined for stealing more than £1,000-worth of Le Creuset cookware, steaks, wine and gin.

Pauline Al Said and her husband, Mark Wheatcroft, have been fined £2,500 between them after the thefts from a garden centre and a branch of Marks & Spencer.