Two teenagers have died and five people remain in hospital after suffering serious injuries following a car crash yesterday.
13.04.2023 - 16:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A crack addict has been banned from every Boots shop in the country and jailed for a prolific shoplifting campaign. Emma Berry, 36, repeatedly targeted a branch of the health and beauty retailer in Tameside, pilfering cosmetics from the store on eight separate occasions.
When she was challenged by a store worker, Berry told the woman: "I don't give a f***. Don't f****** come near me. There's f*** all you can do about it."
But weeks after the final time she struck at the store on Mossley Road in Ashton-under-Lyne, Berry has now been sent to prison. "There are consequences, those consequences you are seeing now," the judge, Recorder Imran Shafi KC told her during a hearing at Manchester Crown Court.
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Berry, who wept throughout Thursday's sentencing hearing, already had the threat of a possible spell in jail hanging over her after being handed a suspended sentence in 2021 for robbery. Her barrister appealed for Berry to be given 'one final chance', but the judge, who said she was 'hopelessly addicted to crack cocaine', refused and instead sent her to prison for eight months.
"You have been given chance, after chance, after chance," Recorder Shafi said. "It seems to me that you have had plenty of chances to show that you can rehabilitate.
"There will come a time when custody is the only remaining option." Prosecuting, Mark Pritchard told how Berry had stolen products worth about £600 from the same store on several occasions between December last year and February this year.
She became abusive to a store worker after being challenged when she'd helped herself to some ladies razors and eye lashes. On other occasions she stole
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