Keep this shoplifting pair out of our stores

Ninder Johal, president of the Black Country Chamber of Commerce, said shoplifters like Janet Rollinson and son Stuart Round were a scourge on businesses.

The pair have been labelled a 'thorn in the side' of retailers by police because of their shoplifting. They have now become the UK's first relatives to be banned from shopping together after stealing from stores around the Black Country.

Their raids included making off with £1,000 of clothes from Next in Wednesbury, while Round also walked out of Wordsley's Sainsburys Local with eight steaks stuffed down his pants and Rollinson put chocolate in the same hiding place.

Mr Johal has welcomed the ban to protect businesses across the Black Country.

"It is important they make a profit so that they are able to invest back into the business and enable further employment.Theft cannot be condoned and the long-term effects, as well as those things, are the disadvantage to those people who truly work hard legally," he added.

Both are banned from:

Sainsbury's Local in Lawnswood Road, Stourbridge;

Asda in Saltwells Road, Netherton and Tesco Express in the Kent Street Arcade, Upper Gornal

Rollinson must also avoid:

Superdrug in Dudley High Street;

Merry Hill's Mothercare store and Tesco Express in the Crown Shopping Centre.

Round is also banned from:

Asda stores in both

Halesowen's Cornbow Centre and Coseley;

Sainsburys in Sandringham Way, Withymoor;

Waitrose at the Ryemarket

shopping centre in Stourbridge

She said: "We would support any action that the police feel is necessary to reduce crime in the area and prevent shops from suffering such loss.

Police revealed the pair had stolen from Tesco Express in Kent Street, Upper Gornal, on April 14 before making off with £1,000 of clothes from Next in Wednesbury two days later, having sneaked behind a counter to de-tag items.

Round walked out of Wordsley's Sainsburys Local on May 25 with eight steaks stuffed down his pants before also grabbing bottles of spirits from Asda Netherton on May 27. Rollinson was shown on Asda CCTV the same day taking security tags from four bottles of Jack Daniels before walking off without paying.

In addition to their shopping bans, Rollinson, aged 51, of Forge Road, Stourbridge, was jailed for 28 weeks and Round, 26, of Wavell Street, Quarry Bank, for 36 weeks. Rollinson admitted three charges of theft and Round admitted five. Rollinson's order runs for two years while Round was handed an order lasting five years.