Shrewsbury shoplifter handed conditional discharge after magistrates hear her circumstances
A woman who 'mustered up the courage' to go shoplifting by drinking alcohol has been handed a conditional discharge by magistrates.
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Michaela Foulkes, aged 31, of Bell Lane, Shrewsbury, went in to Blacks in the town centre and tried on a jacket and fleece before walking out without paying.
Telford Magistrates Court was told on Tuesdaythat Foulkes hadn't been in trouble with the law for 12 years. But at the time on September 16 she was experiencing problems in life and needed money for her children.
Foulkes pleaded guilty to shoplifting and the court was told that she is being helped.
