High street shop workers are being attacked by shoplifters armed with needles, knives and screwdrivers as the boss of Iceland warned the crime is becoming almost 'unpunishable'.
High street shop workers are being attacked by shoplifters armed with needles, knives and screwdrivers as the boss of Iceland warned the crime is becoming almost "unpunishable".Richard Walker said serious incidents against his staff had never been higher amid a spate of thefts from the shelves.
"Weapons deployed to reinforce these threats are things like knives, screwdrivers, hammers, hypodermic needles.Every shop on the high street is suffering in what John Lewis's chairwoman Sharon White has described as an "epidemic". "I think they know these are serious crimes… the reality is over the last 10 years prosecutions for shoplifting have gone down from 80,000 down to about 20,000 [he read].
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