Shoplifter pretending to be a new mother steals £60 of chocolate by stashing ...

Shoplifter pretending to be a new mother steals £60 of chocolate by stashing it in her empty baby buggy The woman was filmed stealing confectionery at a supermarket in Coventry  She used a store basket as a decoy but loaded the pink stroller up with food  The owner of the store posted the video online to warn other shops in the area  

By Terri-ann Williams For Mailonline

Published: 15:20 BST, 26 June 2019 | Updated: 15:42 BST, 26 June 2019

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A shoplifter who pretended to be a new mother by pushing a pram around, fleeced a local supermarket of £60 worth of chocolate by stashing it in an empty buggy.

The woman was filmed on CCTV in a supermarket in Coventry with the pink stroller, browsing the confectionery aisle.

Checking to see if anyone was watching, and carrying one of the store's orange baskets as a decoy, she loads up the empty pram with a haul of chocolate and sweets.

But she was caught in the act by security cameras which show what she was up to.

Woman stealing in a supermarket in Coventry

Woman stealing in a supermarket

The woman was filmed grabbing bars of chocolate and sweets (left) before going round the front of the stroller to check how much space she had left (right)

Euro Supermarket posted the video to its Facebook page and claimed the woman had been using the stroller to do shop lifting

Euro Supermarket posted the video to its Facebook page and claimed the woman had been using the stroller to do shop lifting

The incident took place on Sunday at around 10pm at the Euro Supermarket on Foleshill Road in Coventry, West Midlands.

The local store posted the video on their Facebook account the following day saying: 'Please share it guys. This woman used a fake pushchair to do shoplifting. She stole some chocolate bars [and put them] into her pushchair, but there

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