Overview

• Daniel Cleveland, 33, pleaded guilty at Lewes Crown Court to nine counts of theft and three of attempted theft and received a three-year sentence on September 25.
• The offences spanned February 2024 to March 2025 across B&Q stores in London and the South East, with an estimated £16,000 of goods stolen, mainly taps.
• Body-worn video released Monday shows officers arresting Cleveland at his Bromley home on April 30.
• CCTV captured the method at B&Q Larkfield in Kent, where items were thrown over a garden-centre fence and loaded into a vehicle on false plates.
• The Met and B&Q cite intelligence sharing and neighbourhood policing, with the Met reporting a 15.5% drop in neighbourhood crime and a 92% increase in shoplifting cases solved, while the stolen goods remain unrecovered.