Teh One Who Knocks
11-20-2015, 11:56 AM
The Derby Telegraph
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A FRAUDSTER has been jailed after he tried to con money out of Derby city centre stores.
Lee Shaw showed store assistants a photograph of an injured young girl, claiming their products had caused her cuts.
Shaw would grab an item from the shelves take it to the counter, produce a piece of metal and flash the photograph to supervisors claiming the bloodied girl on the picture was his daughter.
He then attempted to persuade the staff member the metal from the products, mainly clothing, had caused the cut to the girls forehead and demanded they offer him a refund.
But security staff at Derby's Primark, in East Street, became suspicious and held the 31-year-old there until officers arrived to arrest him.
Then, when they searched him, Shaw was found to be carrying a false identity card claiming he was a bouncer.
He was also found to be in breach of a suspended sentence handed to him earlier this year for failing to comply with the terms of being on the sex offenders prevention order when he used two different aliases without informing the relevant authorities.
Magistrates in Derby jailed him for a total of 48 weeks for the string of offences.
A police spokesman said Shaw visited three stores on October 12 and five separate shops the following day and would select an item from the shelves, produce a piece of metal and a photograph of an injured girl he told staff was his daughter.
"The photograph showed a girl with a cut to her forehead and he would tell staff that the metal he had produced was from an item he had previously bought there and demanded a refund.
"Some of the stores offered him credit notes while others refused.
"Some of them became suspicious of what he was trying to do and called the police."
Shaw targeted the Superdry store, Marks and Spencer and Poundstretcher in the Intu Centre on October 12.
On October 13, he returned to Derby and tried the same con at a Gap outlet shop, in Millets, Greenwoods Menswear, Burton and Primark.
The police spokesman said: "On the second day, one of the supervisors at Primark in East Street was suspicious of what Mr Shaw was trying to do so called us and asked the security staff to keep him there until we arrived and arrested him.
"When we searched him we discovered he was carrying a false licence which claimed he was a member of the security industry."
Shaw, of Manvers Street, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to eight counts of fraud, possessing the false identification and for being in breach of the suspended sentence, imposed at Lincolnshire Magistrates Court in February.
He also asked for three other offences to be taken into consideration.
As well as the jail term he was ordered to pay a £180 criminal courts charge and an £80 victim surcharge.
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A FRAUDSTER has been jailed after he tried to con money out of Derby city centre stores.
Lee Shaw showed store assistants a photograph of an injured young girl, claiming their products had caused her cuts.
Shaw would grab an item from the shelves take it to the counter, produce a piece of metal and flash the photograph to supervisors claiming the bloodied girl on the picture was his daughter.
He then attempted to persuade the staff member the metal from the products, mainly clothing, had caused the cut to the girls forehead and demanded they offer him a refund.
But security staff at Derby's Primark, in East Street, became suspicious and held the 31-year-old there until officers arrived to arrest him.
Then, when they searched him, Shaw was found to be carrying a false identity card claiming he was a bouncer.
He was also found to be in breach of a suspended sentence handed to him earlier this year for failing to comply with the terms of being on the sex offenders prevention order when he used two different aliases without informing the relevant authorities.
Magistrates in Derby jailed him for a total of 48 weeks for the string of offences.
A police spokesman said Shaw visited three stores on October 12 and five separate shops the following day and would select an item from the shelves, produce a piece of metal and a photograph of an injured girl he told staff was his daughter.
"The photograph showed a girl with a cut to her forehead and he would tell staff that the metal he had produced was from an item he had previously bought there and demanded a refund.
"Some of the stores offered him credit notes while others refused.
"Some of them became suspicious of what he was trying to do and called the police."
Shaw targeted the Superdry store, Marks and Spencer and Poundstretcher in the Intu Centre on October 12.
On October 13, he returned to Derby and tried the same con at a Gap outlet shop, in Millets, Greenwoods Menswear, Burton and Primark.
The police spokesman said: "On the second day, one of the supervisors at Primark in East Street was suspicious of what Mr Shaw was trying to do so called us and asked the security staff to keep him there until we arrived and arrested him.
"When we searched him we discovered he was carrying a false licence which claimed he was a member of the security industry."
Shaw, of Manvers Street, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to eight counts of fraud, possessing the false identification and for being in breach of the suspended sentence, imposed at Lincolnshire Magistrates Court in February.
He also asked for three other offences to be taken into consideration.
As well as the jail term he was ordered to pay a £180 criminal courts charge and an £80 victim surcharge.