A shoplifter who persistently ignored a court order banning him from a community store has been jailed.
Prolific thief Steven McKinley was prohibited from entering the Co-op store, in Farnborough Road, Clifton, under the terms of a criminal behaviour order (CBO) imposed in February 2025.
He flouted the order on eight occasions in order to steal during January of this year.
However, neighbourhood police and shop security teams worked together to put a stop to his offending and place him before the courts again.
At Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Monday (9 February) he was locked up for eight months.
The 30-year-old, of Grimston Road, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to eight counts of breaching a CBO and eight counts of shop theft.
Police Constable Jane Gibson, of the Clifton neighbourhood policing team, said:
“Help is available to shoplifters who want to get out of their cycle of offending.
“However, if they refuse to engage and continue to steal and breach orders we will continue to arrest them, charge them and place them before the courts.
“Shoplifting is a blight on communities and we understand how dispiriting it can be for store staff to be targeted by offenders like McKinley.
“I hope this prison sentence gives them some respite from his persistent stealing.
“We will continue to work with shop security teams to target offenders like McKinley who are responsible for the vast majority of shop thefts in our neighbourhoods.”
• Attenborough village hall gets £5,000 from East Midlands council funding
• Nottingham Hospitals statement as Critical Incident remains in force with long waits in corridors
