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19.01.2022 - 18:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman went on an Aldi rampage and destroyed £10,000 worth of alcohol because she'd 'lost the plot'.
The woman was forced to pay £5,000 compensation to the supermarket after her rampage.
Barbara Stange-Alvarez, 36, destroyed hundreds of bottles of wine, beer and spirits during the glass smashing spree at the supermarket in Stevenage, St Albans Magistrates' Court heard.
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She walked along the aisle using her arm to sweep hundreds of bottles from the shelves and send them crashing onto the the floor after the UK went into a second lockdown, it was said.
Shocking footage shows the floor littered with broken glass and huge puddles of alcohol after the incident in November 2020, reports Herts Live.
During the incident she slipped and fell on the glass and cut her hand as shoppers in the store looked on in shock, magistrates heard.
Prosecutor Clinton Hadgill told the court: "She made her way directly to the aisle where the alcohol is and proceeded to drag hundreds of bottles of alcohol off the shelf."
He said on reaching the end of the aisle, she went back to the beginning and repeated it.
Stange-Alvarez, from Stevenage, appeared at St Albans Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
She pleaded guilty to criminal damage, racially aggravated common assault and a racially aggravated public order offence after insulting a security guard at the hospital where she received treatment for her hand.
District Judge Margaret Dodd ordered Stange-Alvarez to pay £5,000 in compensation to Aldi.
Ninety seconds into her wrecking spree, the defendant slipped and fell onto the broken glass, cutting her right hand, the court heard.
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