For one of the most vigorous Shoplifters In the UK, every operation will start in the same way.
Before one night, Kulan Mess will load Google Maps on his mobile phone and mark a “fishing rod-lank” route through many cities, which were finished back into their home cardif.
He will call his driver and the next morning he will climb one Attractive shopkeeper competitionClosing with goods worth £ 3,000; From food to sunglasses and even yanki candles.
“I will not leave a shop empty-handed, sometimes I will go two or three times,” said 34-year-old.
Wearing a trench coat, he could fit the souls of more than a dozen bottles in his clothing, which to avoid finding a packet of chewing gum to buy a packet. And did this work.
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He said, “I had a grand lifestyle because I ever wanted anything, whether it was something for food, clothes, alcohol or misses, I just stole it,” he said.
In 10 years, MAIS estimates that he stole items more than £ 3m from shops, taking off to a network of “buyers” for cash to buy almost all heroin.
He was rarely caught.
Overall, he was sentenced to jail on 10 occasions, six of them for shopkeeping. But nothing could stop him at the height of his criminality, and for Myice, the thrill of shoplifting became as big as he was taking drugs.
He said: “I was killing many shops a day, so to be caught once every two years, it’s great, you know, and even if there was £ 2,000 in my pocket, I will still go to shop the next day.
“It became a addiction, I got a discussion, as if I have completed something.”
Mess finally helped after being taken to the hospital with sepsis and pneumonia in 2020.
“I was in the rock bottom and knew that I was just to be clean,” he said.
He received rehabilitation to help over his heroin and shopkeeping addiction. Now, he runs a podcast on which he hopes to help others who are stuck in the objectionable cycle.
It comes as the number Shopkeeper crime In England and Wales, 2024/25 recorded by police increased by 2023/24.
Last month, Home Secretary Yvet Cooper announced a new crime “Blitz” to tighten the crime, which featured more visible policing and strong enforcement to restore confidence in policing.
but as Independent Recently revealedShopkeepers are struggling against the wave of shopkeepers.
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Puts mais Hike in crime Bottom for cost-live-lived crisis and inability to deal with criminals. He also suggested that there should be a specific rehabilitation program for shopkeepers.
“Our justice system is broken,” he said. “I think more people need to support in the community, some should not go to jail because the jail is not working. They come out of jail, and they have come again again.”
Police forces are taking an innovative approach to deal with shopkeepers.
West Midlands Police’s aggressive 2 recovery team established in 2018, Settles with theft Fuel with drug addiction. Measures include residential rehabilitation and good quality restraint-based recovery communities to keep criminals.
Today, at his work, Mess said: “I am the owner of what I am doing now, I am educating people, preventing shopkeepers from losing more money and helping those who are trapped in the same cycle as I was, giving them hope that they can change.”
