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Finance executive stole 6,400 items of women’s clothing
Published by onlines on October 22, 2009
A finance director was jailed for 16 months today for stealing women’s clothes – including underwear – from Marks and Spencer.
David O’Connell, 48, was handed the sentence at Leicester Crown Court today after pleading guilty to two counts of theft from the popular store.
The court heard he took 6,400 items of women’s clothing from Marks and Spencer – worth around £119,000.
O’Connell, of Bank Street, Stoke-on-Trent, was caught shoplifting at one of the chain’s stores in Fosse Park, Leicester, in April last year.
When police searched his home, at that time in Coventry, they found an “Aladdin’s cave” of 6,400 items from Marks and Spencer, including underwear, stored in wardrobes and boxes, many with tags still on.
The court heard today that O’Connell had previous convictions for theft.
Judge Simon Hammond said: “He has a sexual fetish in relation to female clothing.
“The irony is this: the defendant could have bought this clothing himself.
“What he does in his private business is no concern to the court.”
The court heard O’Connell, who trained as an accountant but did not qualify, suffered abuse as a child.(source: mirror.co.uk )
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