Say cheese! Moment gym locker room thief waves to CCTV camera while using stolen credit card as he is jailed for £3,000 spree
This is the moment a thief waved at a CCTV camera while holding a stolen credit card – before having the smile wiped off his face when he was put behind bars.
John Fletcher, 50, raided gym locker rooms, stealing £1,000 in cash before spending a further £2,000 on stolen cards.
Footage from a supermarket shows him noticing a security camera above the till before grinning and waving at it – with a stolen card clearly visible in his right hand.
Kent Police began an investigation into a series of thefts from gyms in Ashford and Eastbourne in January and February this year.
CCTV showed John Fletcher slipping through the turnstiles to get into gym locker rooms, where he stole credit cards and cash
CCTV shows Fletcher slipping through the turnstiles to get into the locker rooms – sometimes assisted by his 35-year-old accomplice Laura McGannan, who distracted the staff.
Officers arrested Fletcher and McGannan after stopping them in a car near Tunbridge Wells on February 24.
Fletcher, from Bexhill-on-Sea, was charged with six counts of burglary and 10 counts of fraud.
He admitted all the counts and was jailed for two and a half years at Canterbury Crown Court.
Fletcher, 50, waving at a supermarket CCTV camera while holding a stolen credit card
McGannan, from Winchelsea, was handed a six-month suspended sentence after admitting five counts of burglary based on her role assisting Fletcher.
PC Michael Eeles, of the Kent Crime Squad, said: ‘CCTV showed Fletcher waving at a camera while he spent other people’s money at a supermarket.
‘I am pleased the quick work of detectives led to him being arrested a few days later and he is now in prison, unable to further trouble the public.’
The hapless thief admitted all the counts and was jailed for two and a half years at Canterbury Crown Court
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