By Peterborough woman jailed after charity theft
A Peterborough woman has been jailed after the theft of a charity box on Christmas day.
Prolific thief Teresa Gaskin, 48, entered a property on Stan Rowling Court, Stanground, on the 2nd of December.
She asked the residents if she could use the phone as her car had broken down, and while the victim was distracted Gaskin took her handbag and fled the scene.
On the 21st of December, she stole a bicycle that had been left outside a house in Westgate, Peterborough.
This was followed by an incident on the 25th of December, when she broke into a hair salon in Wentworth Street, Peterborough.
Gaskin stole cash from the till and the money from a charity support box for cancer sufferers.
Finally on the 29th of December she broke into a charity shop in Whittlesey where she stole more cash.
Gaskin, of no fixed abode, was linked to the crimes from forensic evidence and CCTV.
She was arrested on the 16th of January, and pleaded guilty to three counts of burglary and one count of theft at Peterborough Crown Court on the 3rd of March.
She has now been jailed for three years.
Pete Wise, Detective Constable for Cambridgeshire Police, said:
“Gaskin is the epitome of an opportunistic burglar and she was brazen and heartless in her crimes.
The fact all she was thinking about on Christmas Day was stealing says a lot about her. I’m pleased she is behind bars.”
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