00:00It is Adam. Hi Adam. We've been looking for you.
00:03Hello.
00:04Yeah, so Adam, you're under arrest because we've got CCTV footage of you shoplifting from Greggs
00:09on 38 occasions ranging from December the 29th to present day.
00:17The Metropolitan Police have released CCTV footage that shows a thief nicknamed the Hamster
00:24going into a Greggs and stealing drinks in plain sight.
00:29Adam Gosling, who is 39 years old, was spared jail after stealing from a branch of the bakery chain in
00:37West London.
00:39He stole from the chain around 38 times between December 30th, 2025 and February 10th, 2026.
00:51The value of the thefts ranged from £12.30 to £100 per visit and on some days he targeted the
01:00shop multiple times.
01:02Prosecutors told Uxbridge Magistrates Court on Tuesday that Gosling's six week theft spree amounted to just under £2,000.
01:13In one clip, wearing a hood over a cap, he fills a carrier bag with multiple Lucozade bottles while a
01:20staff member is nearby at the fridge.
01:23The staff member then enters a back door and Gosling walks out.
01:27In another clip, Gosling, this time with a face covering, is seen continuing to swipe drinks from the fridge as
01:33a staff member leans in seemingly trying to check his face.
01:39Scotland Yard's Greenford Broadway Safer Neighbourhood team has said on its Met Engage platform that staff saw a high number
01:47of thefts of food and drink at the branch and began to log each one.
01:53Police Community Support Officer James Tupman said one man, nicknamed Hamster by staff, became the most prolific thief.
02:01Officers identified him as Gosling through the CCTV footage and arrested him on the 10th of February.
02:10When it comes to thieving in the capital, would other shoppers report shoplifting if they witnessed it?
02:17I think it depends really if somebody was sort of seeing food or nappies, then probably not.
02:22But I know there's sort of organised gangs that go around stealing really expensive things.
02:26So I think it depends on what the case was really.
02:29I'd probably make a huge assumption on the person that was shoplifting, to be honest.
02:38And if I felt that they needed to do it, then I probably wouldn't report it.
02:46More and more people these days are resorting to those kinds of crimes just because of the cost of living
02:53and the high cost of food.
02:55We'll go to the table.
02:55We'll talk to you soon.
02:56After a few minutes earlier, we'll talk about how the value of that gave us all the things that happened.
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