Overview

• Her shoplifting career spanned two decades and netted an estimated £30 million in high-end goods, with about £3.7 million taken from a single Selly Oak store
• She concealed purchases in a custom-modified Michael Kors coat and phoned retailers posing as a police officer to pinpoint security schedules
• A private WhatsApp network of roughly 150 buyers allowed her to offload stolen items at cut-price rates within hours of each theft
• After enrolling in the Offending to Recovery programme she began monthly Buvidal injections that abolished her opioid cravings
• Now 18 months drug-free, she works alongside West Midlands Police delivering outreach talks on opioid treatment and mentoring fellow addicts