Overview
- Matthew Jenkins, 44, admitted four shop thefts on 7 January at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court and was sentenced for breaching a prior community order.
- The court heard he repeatedly targeted Aldi on Pier Avenue in Clacton-on-Sea, stealing £782.96 of meat including wagyu steaks between 31 December and 5 January.
- He also confessed to taking £42 of fitness nutrition products from a nearby Boots on 6 January.
- Officers from the Tendring Neighbourhood Policing Team arrested him in Old Road shortly after the final theft.
- A three-year criminal behaviour order bans him from all Aldi stores in the Tendring district, and he must pay a £187 victim surcharge.