A thief who targeted the same Boots store in London for two months has been banned from entering a whole borough, the City of London police have said. Oyas Ali, 53, is a professional thief who stole more than £1,600 worth of items from Boots on Moorgate between May and June of this year.
Ali, of Barnet Grove, already has 25 convictions, the police said, with offences dating back as far as 2007. Now, the shoplifter has been banned from entering the City of London for five years, as well as being sentenced to 14 weeks in jail for five counts of theft.
He was slapped with a Criminal Behaviour Order at City of London Magistrates’ Court.
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Inspector Dan Green, of the Proactive Acquisitive Crime team at the City of London Police, said: “This is another great result in banning a prolific thief from coming into the City and a reminder to criminals that we will bring them to justice.
“We will use all our resources in keeping businesses and members of the public safe. Oyas Ali had committed these offences and anti-social behaviour, with no thought or consideration to anybody he had come across.
“This CBO will act as a deterrent to reoffending. If Ali breaches his CBO, he could face further jail time.”
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