BRITAIN’S most prolific shoplifter is back in jail just weeks after being banned from thousands of stores.
Fed-up police who have been arresting Tanya Liddle, 43, for decades finally got an injunction barring her from almost every shop in their area.
But she is behind bars again for breaching the ban — and has admitted more thefts.
Shop staff are delighted that police took the drastic action of barring her.
Tommy Moir, 27, manager of a Card Factory store, said: “She has a TikTok account where she showed people how to get away with stealing.
“And she wears wigs so people don’t recognise her.”
Liddle, of Blyth, Northumberland, has 172 convictions for 499 offences, 370 of which are theft-related.
Northumbria Police obtained a civil injunction on September 12 banning her from every shop in their area — except for a pharmacy, a clothes shop and a supermarket.
It is the strictest order of its kind issued in the region.
Liddle is in Durham’s HMP Low Newton serving three months for breaching the order.
Last week, she app-eared before Newcastle magistrates via video link to admit earlier thefts from Asda.
She got a 12-month conditional discharge with £66 costs.
