Nottingham Yankee Candle thief caught out by CCTV
CCTV cameras from nearby store help jail Yankee Candle crook
CCTV cameras located at a nearby store have help to capture a prolific crook, after he was caught smashing and grabbing from a Nottinghamshire shop door before making off with over £1,000 worth of Yankee Candles.
The Yankee Candle is extremely popular and available in all different sizes and scents and can be purchased along with many other candle accessories. The Yankee Candle Company was founded 47 years ago by Michael Kittredge from Massachusetts and their products are now sold online and in gift shops in around 50 countries across the world.
A Clintons card shop – thief stole over £1,000 worth of Yankee Candles from a store in Nottingham © Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
Lee Barratt, aged 35, from Caledonian Road, Retford, used a hammer to smash through the front door of the Clinton’s card shop in Nottingham sometime during the night between July 1 and July 2. He then grabbed some of the popular scented candles and ran away.
Police managed to capture Barratt after he left the hammer with his DNA on in the store, on the counter and from CCTV images captured by a nearby shop, which show him running away from the card shop with another man.
He was arrested on July 3 after police managed to track down another burglar who ran away from the same store carrying a bag. Barrett was found at the address on Watson Road, Worksop, along with a large number of the candles.
Barrett denied stealing the candles at first but in court he changed his plea to guilty and was given an eight month sentence. However, a further eight weeks were added because he was already serving a suspended prison sentence at the time of the robbery.
He already has 33 convictions for 84 offences, 43 of which are for theft and similar offences.
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CCTV footage released after multiple Nottingham burglaries
The man in the CCTV images is wanted by the police
Nottinghamshire Police have released CCTV footage of a man they would like to trace in connection with a number of burglaries recently in Nottingham.
The incidents occurred at different areas in the city during September and October and the suspect managed to get away with personal items and cash.
On Friday, September 30 at around 3pm, cash and phones were stolen from an office on Garage Medway Street. The suspect is then believed to have struck again on Angel Row on Wednesday, October 5 shortly before 2pm and stolen a purse and mobile phones from a staff room.
On the morning of Wednesday, October 5, there was an attempted burglary on Glasshouse Street at a hairdressers at around 9:45am.
A flat was burgled during another incident, believed to be by the same suspect on Thursday, October 13 at around 10:40am, in which a wallet was stolen from a property on Fletcher Gate. On Monday, October 17, shortly before 2pm, cash was stolen from an office room on Front Street, Arnold.
The man seen in the CCTV images is described as black, between 30-40 years-old, about 6ft tall and of medium build.
Anyone with information, or who might recognise the man in the CCTV footage, can contact Nottinghamshire Police on 101, quoting Incident Number: 430 of 17 October.
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