A pair of brazen shoplifters calmly walked out of a Marks & Spencer store with a basket overflowing with meat.
Shocking footage shows them casually leaving the store with one man carrying a bulging shopping basket crammed full of what appear to be packaged steaks.
Dressed in a hoodie and a cap, the men appear completely unfazed as they stroll past other customers and out of the shop seemingly unchallenged by staff or security.
Other shoppers looked on bemused.
It happened at the outlet in Kilburn, north west London.
Viewers were stunned, as reported by Need To Know.
One person said: “I get told off if I try to take the basket to my car to put stuff in the boot.”
Another viewer added: “Shoplifting should result in a three-month prison sentence.
“It would soon stop.”
A third person said: “What’s the point of employing security guards if this happens anyway.”
Someone else added: “Lucky he never used a trolley.”
Britain is in the grip of a shoplifting epidemic with a record 810 offences going unsolved every day.
Police closed 295,589 shoplifting cases without identifying a suspect in 2024 to 2025 – the equivalent of officers shelving 34 offences an hour.
Shoplifting levels have doubled since the pandemic and rocketed by 20 per cent since Labour came into power.
And a new analysis, produced for the Liberal Democrats, has revealed how a record number of cases are being dropped by police.
The number of shoplifting investigations being closed without a suspect identified has soared by 65% compared to five years ago when 178,906 shoplifting offences went unsolved.
Last year, fewer than one in five (19%) shoplifting cases led to a suspect being charged or summoned, while 55 per cent of cases were closed without a suspect being identified.
And separate Office for National Statistics figures show that between April 2024 and March 2025, police recorded 530,643 shoplifting offences – the equivalent of one a minute.
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