A shoplifter who threatened staff with a needle and a knife at stores across Swale has been jailed. Lucille Willett, 29, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to 14 offences in June 2019 and was sentenced to 19 months’ imprisonment at Maidstone Crown Court on Thursday 9 January 2020.
At around 7pm on 12 June 2019, Willett went into a shop in the Avenue of Remembrance, Sittingbourne and filled her bag with boxes of baby formula milk. As she went to leave the store she was confronted by a member of staff who tried to take the bag from her. Willett then pulled out a needle and told the staff member to let go or she would stab him with it. She proceeded to swipe at the victim with the needle before leaving the store with the goods.
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