Police are asking Islanders to think about where their steak may have been after a thief was caught on CCTV putting meat products down his trousers.
With the cost of living on the rise and drug use rife in the local community, thieves are continuing to target local shops and stealing a whole array of items – including a popular choice, meat. In the past week alone thefts on the Island have included speakers, cables, duvet covers, candles, sweets, beer, gin and fillet steak.
Officers have been investigating one particularly memorable incident in which CCTV footage captures a male taking 2 steaks out of their sealed packets and placing them down the front of his trousers.
The incident took place in Newport recently.
PC Livvy of Newport Police Station has said:
“I know most people buy steaks from the shops but clearly lots of people are purchasing via other means. So if that’s you and you are enjoying that nice juicy steak tonight, I hope you cooked it well.
“In all seriousness our team are targeting our prolific shoplifters by means of arrest, or summons to court and out of court disposals. We are working with both the Newport Shopwatch and the Hampshire Constabulary Business Crime Silver group to drive down retail thefts by varying means. We are also targeting those that handle the stolen goods”.
If we had not allowed in half the worlds vilest criminals then we may still have had room to give meaningful sentences to our own law breakers in prison.
As it stands unless the crime is as serious as others, people know they will only be fined and as most have the ultimate shield of several scattered mini clones they rarely need to even pay that.
Hard for shops to make ends meet to without low life robbing them to.
Yes, we are a soft touch for all the criminals who want to come here, but all the bleeding hearts out there will say otherwise. Too late to reverse the trend now though.
Some people are genuinely desperate for money at the moment and maybe that’s the reason behind the rise in shoplifting.
When will people learn that if you vote the Tories in they will only look after themselves and their mates and not the general population.
You have yourselves to blame…
so who should we vote for and why
Difficult question.
The simple answer is anyone but the Tories. They have spent the last 12 years shafting the ordinary people of this country for their own personal gain and enrichment and will certainly continue to do so. Even more so if they are emboldened by getting into power again after all of the damage they have caused.
The problem is that with the “anything but the Tories” vote split so many ways (On the Island it’s Sausage Seely on one side and Labour, Greens and LibDems on the other) this will just hand them another massive majority even when, as in 2019, most people did not vote for them. Seeley is a soo-in in the next election (which is why we won’t get the “Island Deal”. Why spend money on a safe seat?).
So, until we have PR, the answer has to be “Labour”. This is another symptom of the FPTP voting system. People tend to vote for the party most likely to oust or keep out the party they don’t want rather than the party they do.
This works both ways. People who hate Labour vote Tory to keep Labour out as well. This is evidenced in the way that UKIP never got a look in in Westminster (FPTP) but got loads of seats in the European Parliament (PR).
You don’t think that maybe covid followed by the war in Ukraine could have something to do with the spiralling costs that we are all experiencing?
Theiving is rife and has been on the island for years , I have witnessed at least 10 cases in the last year .
The poor shops staff cannot do anything , and when they get caught slap on the hand .
One was in M&S saw him take 5 hangers with expensive stuff , the staff just called to him and he casually walked out of the shop .
I have worked all my bloody life to pay for my goods , sick to death of this country giving the crooks no sentences at all .
Years ago an uncle of my friend got 3 years inside for pinching 3 loaves of bread for his mum after the war
Identify as anything other than straight and white and your on easy street.
“Meat and Two Legs” would have been more appropriate haha
I gave you a vote – some people have no sense of humour.
Could have been abit dangerous if he’d got things mixed up.
I did wonder where the hairs on my steak had come from! They probably weren’t topped with cheese either…
This is why I’m vegan
the old meat and two veg trick