A serial shoplifter targeted top retailers such as H&M, Boots and River Island during a crime spree which lasted almost a year.
Michelle McLachlan appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week after she pleaded guilty to eleven charges between March 20, 2024 and February 26, 2025.
These included four thefts. She took clothes worth £379 from H&M in the St Enoch Centre, a watch from River Island on Argyle Street, a bag of bank cards and £400 of headphones from the Post Office on Great Western Road and cosmetics, razors and medical items valued at £450 from Boots on Crown Street.
The 43-year-old also admitted to assaulting retail workers at The White Company on Buchanan Street and Gallus Alice on Argyle Street, as well as a woman on Union Street.
She also pleaded guilty to breaching court orders on three occasions and one charge of acting in an aggressive manner.
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The Oatlands resident appeared at the dock of Glasgow Sheriff Court last week from custody.
Sheriff Allan McKay observed: "In sobriety, she's quite an intelligent woman."
Her lawyer replied: "Absolutely. There was a time she was volunteering at a soup kitchen and she was doing it well.
"There are difficulties, she started as a young person and became a consistent offender.
"She struggles with the rigid court orders. It was creating difficulties.
"There are services available to her, she seems to be engaging with them".
Sheriff McKay added: "She struggles with addiction. She's a danger to people who are just doing their work. I don't think there is an alternative to custody."
McLachlan was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment, backdated to March 16, 2025.
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