A prolific West Cumbrian shoplifter has admitted more breaches of a court order which bans her entering stores in two West Cumbria towns.
Nicola Moore, 40, has repeatedly been brought before magistrates and judges for thefts of alcohol and other items, and has received a number of prison sentences.
In January this year, Cumbria police released a photo of Moore — along with images of five other men and women — and reiterated that the six are all subject to the tough terms of criminal behaviour orders.
The orders have previously been imposed at the request of Workington neighbourhood policing team officers in a bid to prevent further offending and give protection to businesses.
But Moore — a woman with 84 criminal offences to her name — was back at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court today.
She pleaded guilty to stealing spirits, from Workington’s Marks & Spencer store on Pow Street, on July 11 and August 1; and two breaches of the order by entering the store. A prosecutor said there were 27 such breaches on her rap sheet.
Defence solicitor John Smith said Moore, of Fountains Avenue, Moorclose, was currently engaging with agencies, the hope being that she could break a cycle of offending, prison sentences and release from custody.
After hearing submissions, a district judge deferred passing sentence on the four new offences for a period of three months.
He ordered Moore to co-operate with the probation service in the meantime and continue working with all other agencies in a bid to rehabilitate.
Moore will next attend a sentencing hearing at Workington Magistrates’ Court on November 11.
- Police have said that the conditions of Moore’s order, which runs until June 2026 are that she must not enter any premises affiliated to the Workington and Whitehaven Shopwatch schemes; must not enter a specified area of Workington town centre; nor Heron Foods in Maryport.
