Moment beer thief loses coat after being wrestled by M&S guard
This is the moment a brazen shoplifter lost his coat after wrestling with a security guard while stealing a pack of beer.
The sandal-wearing crook was nabbed while attempting to snatch a four-pack of booze from the alcohol fridge in the Marks and Spencer shop of a BP garage.
Footage of the thief captured him being tackled by the store’s security guard, who wrestled the man down the aisles of the M&S outlet.
‘Put it back, put it back,’ shouts the guard as he grapples with the suspected shoplifter, adding: ‘Put it down, put it down.’
The desperate thief – wearing khaki shorts and a chequered shirt and blue jacket – is then heard begging: ‘Let me go, let me go.’
The brazen shoplifter was caught trying to pinch a four-pack of beer from an M&S store
The alleged thief was wrestled through the aisles of the shop by the security guard during the incident on Sunday
The man managed to escape – but only after wriggling out of his coat.
‘No,’ replies the guard, as he continues to grip onto the man’s arm while they struggle through the shop.
An onlooker filming the chaos then screams ‘oh no’ as the shoplifter tumbled into one of the chilled aisle shelves before dropping the pack of beers to the floor and scooping them back up.
Attempting to stop the man from fleeing, the brave guard continues to grip onto the suspected thief – before the male managed to slip out of his jacket and wriggle free.
The coatless crook said: ‘Thank you, thank you’ as he fled on foot with the cans of beer.
The incident happened at the BP garage on the A312 in Northolt, west London, on Sunday morning, as reported on NeedToKnow.
It comes as the head of a security at a chain of high-end health food stores in the capital claimed to lose £900,000 a year to ‘posh totty’ shoplifters.
Richard Fowler said some shoppers feel ‘entitled’ to steal from Planet Organic because they shop their regularly.
The brand, which has nine stores across London, claims all the products it sells are completely organic.
The incident happened at the BP garage on the A312 in Northolt on Sunday morning (pictured is the suspected shoplifter and guard wrestling in the M&S outlet at the garage)
The man is seen being pinned against the wall by a guard as he attempts to steal a pack of beer
But Mr Fowler claimed shoplifting takes place at its Chiswick branch ‘every day’ and that ‘posh totty’ were among the main culprits.
He told the BBC: ‘We’ve got our homeless… Then we have what I would call the posh totty people.
‘They shop in Planet Organic on a daily basis, they spend a lot of money with our business.
‘[They think] “Today I’m a little bit short of money, so I’m entitled to steal something”.’
The third type of shoplifters are opportunists who ‘drop’ something into their bag when they think they are going unnoticed.
The Government pledged to scrap laws introduced in 2014 which downgraded thefts of less than £200 to a minor offence.
It comes after shopkeepers and major retail bosses complained shoplifters were running riot across Britain, with stores powerless to act.
The Met Police, BP and Marks and Spencer have been approached for comment about the video of the theft Northolt.
