Portsmouth Tesco shoplifters in 'professional gang' spared jail for £3,000 alcohol theft

Abigail Crowhurst, 31, of Meyrick Road, Portsmouth, admitted dishonestly failing to notify Portsmouth City Council of a change in circumstance affecting her housing benefit.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 200 hours' unpaid work.

She must pay a £60 surcharge and £85 costs.

Martin Alden, 46, of Kingston Road, Portsmouth, admitted burgling a property in Fawcett Road, Southsea, stealing tattoo ink on April 16.

Magistrates imposed a two-year community order with 19 sessions of a thinking skills programme and 15 days' rehabilitation activities.

Alden must complete 150 hours' unpaid work.

He must pay £120 compensation, a £90 surcharge and £85 costs.

He also admitted failing to comply with sex offenders' registration requirements on April 3, 2019, by completing his yearly registration 21 days late.

Nicolae-Alexandrv Budencea, 32, of Park Avenue, Barking in Essex, admitted jointly stealing £1,339 worth of alcohol from Tesco in Fratton Way on September 30.