Inside Britain's Shoplifting Gangs: Dispatches
In this high stakes, true crime investigation, reporter Matt Shea goes undercover to find the truth behind Britain’s shoplifting epidemic, exposing the shadowy international criminal network behind it all for the first time.
The UK’s rate of shoplifting is currently at the highest level since records began, with 900 incidents every hour. This amounted to £1.8 billion worth of goods in 2023 and adds an extra £133 a year to our household bills. But there’s more than meets the eye to this new crimewave.
Police estimate a quarter of these incidents are now down to organised shoplifting gangs, who crisscross the country to steal an unprecedented volume of stock from retailers.
Shea hones in on an organised shoplifting gang who stole over £120,000 of retail goods from over 80 branches of Morrisons across the country. Who did this? Why? And where on earth were they shifting over £120,000 worth of stock from Morrisons? Shea makes it his mission to find out. His investigation takes him undercover, across international borders, and face-to-face with the people behind it all.
- Broadcaster:
Channel 4
- TX Date:
November 2024
- Credits:
- Presented and Produced: Matt Shea
- Shooting Producer and Director: Alice McShane
- Executive Producer: Daniel Pearl