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Video footage appears to show a group of three men, dressed in dark puffer coats and baseball caps, pilfering bottles of spirits from a store in West Drayton, London .
Rhys Mansell, 37, (pictured) struck 26 times in just 29 days at the two chains, stealing £5,035 worth of items. He also hit a single Co-op outlet 38 times, costing them £6,510 in stolen items.
Cardiff-based Cullan Mais, 32, and who was jailed 10 times for shoplifting, believes sentences need to be longer to deter thieves.
A former shoplifter who stole £3million worth of items says Brits now have "a licence to steal" as shoplifting incidents hit record highs.
A charity says its volunteers are having to deal with thefts every day worth thousands of pounds.