Moment police arrest man who stole £220 worth of Cadbury Creme Eggs
Deon De Groot, 26, has been banned form Cambridgeshire for three months after he stole 325 Cadbury Creme Eggs from a petrol station in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough. De Groot was found with £220.50 worth of the eggs stuffed into his jacket and a duffel bag. He appeared at Peterborough magistrates court on Tuesday, where he was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for a year
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The Guardian
27-03-2025
- The Guardian
Moment police arrest man who stole £220 worth of Cadbury Creme Eggs
Deon De Groot, 26, has been banned form Cambridgeshire for three months after he stole 325 Cadbury Creme Eggs from a petrol station in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough. De Groot was found with £220.50 worth of the eggs stuffed into his jacket and a duffel bag. He appeared at Peterborough magistrates court on Tuesday, where he was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for a year
The Independent
27-03-2025
- The Independent
Moment police catch man stealing over 300 Creme Eggs - before he's banned from entire county
Footage shows the moment 26-year-old Deon De Groot was arrested by police after he was spotted stealing over £200 worth of Cadbury 's Creme Eggs from a Tesco Express in Peterborough. He was seen packing the chocolate eggs into a duffel bag at around 11:40 am on Saturday (March 22) before officers were flagged down. Police discovered that De Groot had concealed approximately £220.50 worth of the stolen Easter eggs inside his jacket. He had also discarded the duffel bag, which was filled with boxes of Creme Eggs, nearby. Deon De Groot was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison, suspended for one year, and banned from entering Cambridgeshire for the next three months.
Telegraph
26-03-2025
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Watch: Shoplifter caught with hundreds of Creme Eggs
A Creme Egg thief has been banned from an entire county after he stole 325 of the chocolates. Deon De Groot, 26, was spotted by staff as he shoved the fondant-filled chocolate eggs worth £220.50 into a duffle bag at a Tesco Express fuel station. The alarm was raised after he walked out of the store in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, without paying. A member of staff stopped a passing police car and officers followed De Groot and stopped him in the street at about 11.40am last Saturday. They found he had more than a dozen boxes of Cadbury Creme Eggs stuffed inside his jacket and had dropped his bag nearby, which was also full of the chocolates. Officers found his haul amounted to 65 boxes, each containing five of the chocolate eggs. Pc Guy Cunningham, who made the arrest, said: 'Thanks to the quick reaction by staff who flagged us down, we were able to catch De Groot red-handed and return the stolen items to the store.' Cambridgeshire Police released bodycam footage showing officers noticing the suspicious bulge under De Groot's jacket before his arrest. Pc Cunningham can be heard saying: 'I'm going to put handcuffs on you, all right? 'You're under arrest on suspicion of theft from a shop, all right? Because, I mean, Christ, what have you got in there?' De Groot replies, 'Creme Eggs', and the officer begins unzipping his jacket, saying: 'You've got Creme Eggs? Undo this.' 'You've really loaded this up' The shoplifter offers no resistance apart from saying, 'It's all gonna fall out', as Pc Cunningham reaches into his jacket. As the officer pulls out numerous boxes, he adds: 'Christ, you've really loaded this up.' The footage ends with De Groot sitting with a pile of Creme Egg boxes next to him as he is read his rights before being taken away for questioning. De Groot admitted theft from a shop and was given a 12-week prison sentence, suspended for a year, at Peterborough Magistrates' Court. The thief, of no fixed abode, was also banned from Cambridgeshire for three months.
