thief

In one case, stores targeted by a thief waited up to 10 months for a shoplifter to be sentenced, despite retail workers piecing together her identity without help from the police.

That case, brought before DNA testing was widely available, was enough to convince a jury at Liverpool Crown Court - and on 5 November 1987 he went from a self-confessed "petty thief" to a convicted murderer.

I roll through neighbors’ yards, cut through cul-de-sacs, and squeeze through fences— whatever I need to do to keep that little thief in my sight.

“Simon, I have no doubt that you are an excellent thief, and a dreadful knave, and a rascally rogue as well. But you would be far too conspicuous in an all-girls’ school.

“For what if you are caught? The officers of the law will surely think that you are the thief.”