Eight shoppers have been banned from stores and supermarkets in Merseyside and Cheshire so far this year.
From Asda to Tesco and Lidl to Home Bargains, these men and women were landed with bans ranging from one to five years.
The reasons behind the bans differ but in each case they resulted in a criminal behaviour order with its own specific restrictions.
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Here the ECHO takes a look at the shoppers who have been banned from stores and supermarkets in the region and beyond since January.
Lee James Stuart
Lee James Stuart is banned from every branch of Co-op, McColls, Tesco and Asda in St Helens, as well as a string of smaller independent stores.
The 31-year-old was hit with a Criminal Behaviour Order which runs until September 2022, after a catalogue of bizarre behaviour.
This five-year ban was first imposed in September 2017 after staff complained of being intimidated and terrorised by him.
Richard Burt was a shop assistant at Martins in Parr in 2017, and he told the ECHO : “He has been banned from here for shoplifting mainly.
“He used to come in and take whatever he wanted like coffee or ham.
"We caught him a couple of times and told him to stop but let him away with it.
“It was only when we told him he was banned from the store he used to come in wearing disguises and used to try and sneak around.”
The 2017 CBO, which is still in force today, isn’t the first time Stuart has been the subject of an banning order.
In 2008, the then 19-year-old, was banned from entering every front and back garden in St Helens after being convicted of taking money from homeowners, promising to clean their windows but never doing the job.
Conditions of the current CBO mean Stuart must not enter any "self service shop unless he seeks the permission of the owner/manager/staff member/other authorised person acting on behalf of that store" before entering
Jeff Dey
Jeff Dey was banned from entering every Tesco, Sainsbury's, Lidl or Spar store in Merseyside after a spate of crimes.
It came after the 31-year-old, of no fixed address, carried out a number of thefts, burglaries and assaults in Liverpool city centre.
He was also found to have committed offences of anti-social behaviour.
The repeat offender was handed a three-year Criminal Behaviour Order in February at Liverpool Magistrates' Court.
The three-year order will run until February 15, 2024, and will prevent Dey from entering any supermarket in the city centre.
It also stops Dey from entering two specified areas of Liverpool City Centre unless for medical or legal reasons.
Officers from Merseyside Police submitted the application for the CBO following eight separate incidents in city centre shops between November 2020 and January 2021, where Dey was charged with theft and burglary.
Carlos Navarro, Carole Heath and Natalie Riley
One man and two women were banned from every Home Bargains store in Liverpool.
The signs were posted in the Allerton Road branch of the discount store, along with mugshots stating the three named individuals were the subject of Criminal Behaviour Orders.
They are: Carlos Navarro, 37; Carole Heath, 30; and Natalie Riley, 39.
Each are banned from entering any Home Bargains store for a set period of time. In the case of Navarro, it is until January 2023; for Heath, until August 2022; and for Riley, until March 2022.
In the cases of Navarro and Riley, they are also banned from entering specific areas of Liverpool.
If any of them break the terms of the order, they will be committing a criminal offence which could result in them being sent to prison.
James Tully
James Tully was banned from entering any Liverpool Tesco for two years.
In April, the 36-year-old was sentenced to 12 weeks in prison to be followed by a two year Criminal Behaviour Order after a number of recent offences in Liverpool.
Merseyside Police officers submitted the application after four separate incidents in shops in Old Swan from January to March 2021 where Tully was charged with shoplifting, anti-social behaviour, criminal damage, witness intimidation and breach of bail offences
The CBO intends to prevent Tully from carrying out thefts, intimidation and anti-social behaviour.
Upon his release from prison, for the next two years Tully must not:
1. Enter any Tesco stores within the City of Liverpool.
2. Remain in any shop premises if asked to leave by a member of staff of those premises within the City of Liverpool.
Dominic Lyons
A prolific shoplifter was banned from nearly every shop in Runcorn after failing to learn his lesson.
Dominic Lyons, 26, was jailed for six months in January for breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order that was first imposed in April 2019 and made to last five years.
Its conditions banned him from entering Runcorn Asda and three Co-op stores but he found himself behind bars after stealing £124 of meat and chocolate from Aldi on Trident Park in on January 7, then £40 of meat from Co-op on Grangeway on January 7, and £54 of meat from Co-op on Halton Road on January 8.
All three thefts were filmed on CCTV, Lyons was located on Whitchurch Way in Halton Lodge on January 11, and he was jailed for three counts of shoplifting and three CBO breaches after pleading guilty.
Further conditions were added to his order, which bans him from entering any retail premises in Runcorn except shops at Shopping City and the Premier Store in Halton Lodge, and from concealing any item prior to payment at any retail premises in Cheshire.
The 26-year-old, of no fixed address, but most recently living on Fenwick Lane in Halton Lodge, has now been released from prison but the CBO remains in place until April 2024.
Alan McCormick
Alan McCormick was banned from eight shops around Runcorn including six Co-ops, Wilko and Asda.
The 40-year-old of Bridgeway West, Windmill Hill, was made subject to a Criminal Behaviour Order at North Cheshire Magistrates’ Court on January 11.
Cheshire police said McCormick has been committing offences in Halton since 1999, racking up convictions for 29 theft-related offences.
The most recent conviction was for when McCormick stole items worth £122 from Wilko at Runcorn Shopping City on November 4.
Court papers said the stolen goods were a mix of groceries and beauty products.
In a bid to curb McCormick’s shoplifting, Cheshire police’s Halton Problem Solving team applied for a three-year CBO.
This bans him from entering eight stores in Runcorn: Wilko at Shopping City, Asda on West Lane, and Co-Ops in Windmill Hill, Balfour Street, Halton Road, Grangeway, Murdishaw and Granville Street in the town centre.
He is also prohibited from concealing any item prior to payment at any retail premises in Cheshire.
