Tesco Shoplifting - need help.

hollydays

geerex wrote: »

Didn't happen with the OP, did it?

They didn't need to. The security guard lied. Try to keep up..

whiteswan

geerex wrote: »

What part of "leaving a store with goods for which you have had many opportunities to pay for but didn't" do you have difficulty understanding?
Do you even understand what "framing" means?

You know what? You try it. Go and nick some stuff from any shop of your choice, get collared by the instore security and when the police arrive, make up some story about illness/medication etc and see if you get off. Looks like the worst case scenario is a store ban and withdrawal of loyalty card. No wonder all the druggie crims shoplift to feed their habit. Easy money.

I didn't make up anything.........I told the truth. Medical records are easily checkable........

And before this incident and falling poorly and having to take strong medication I may well have been in the "hang him" brigade.

Its only when illness strikes you personally that you see things from the "other side"

And I'm NOT going for compo or publicity - but I would like an explanation of why the security guy tried to make it look worse than it actually was by saying I had "concealed the magazines in my clothing" - and it was a pretty pointless thing to say as their own cctv proved that NOT to be the case at all....................

No charge was put to me after the so called "arrest" - I was literally placed in a room and told to wait for the Police..........

Dave

hollydays

Wasn't a manager called?

stormbreaker

I should have added one bad apple does not mean they are all bad.

It's one security guard. One person who made the decision that you were shoplifting.

The problem is that it's had an adverse affect on you as a person. You know your not a thief and are mortified that it has been suggested by anyone that you are.

He may well have had to make a report to the shop as to what happened and the outcome.

He may have numerous outcomes similar. He may be inexperienced. Or he may well be part of the hang them all brigade.

geerex

hollydays wrote: »

They didn't need to. The security guard lied. Try to keep up..

So the shoplifter said. Doesn't change the facts, does it?

System

hollydays wrote: »

They didn't need to. The security guard lied. Try to keep up..

Can you believe the words of a shoplifter trying to wriggle out of the allegation?

hollydays

!!!!!! wrote: »

Can you believe the words of a shoplifter trying to wriggle out of the allegation?

Eh?the cctv proved he was lying?

hollydays

geerex wrote: »

So the shoplifter said. Doesn't change the facts, does it?

No it was what the cctv proved :rotfl:

hollydays

geerex wrote: »

So the shoplifter said. Doesn't change the facts, does it?

The facts were there was no dishonest intent-that's what the police believed .

whiteswan

geerex wrote: »

So the shoplifter said. Doesn't change the facts, does it?

No the cctv proved my version of events...........not just my word - although I do believe my word is worth something.

Dave