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This is the moment a prolific shoplifter punched a Tesco worker in the face when she was confronted in a car park after stealing four bottles of vodka.
Joleen Maughan, 37, also threatened staff with a needle when they followed her out of the store as she tried to make off with the £96 worth of alcohol.
CCTV footage shows her picking out the bottles of booze and putting them in her bag, before she sneakily covers the loot with a coat over her shoulder.
But on her way out of the Tesco extra store at Serpentine Green in Hampton, near Peterborough, staff became aware of the theft and pursued her.
The three staff members eventually closed in and surrounded Maughan but she refused to give up the goods.
Joleen Maughan, 37, also threatened staff with a needle when they followed her out of the store as she tried to make off with the £96 worth of alcohol
The prolific shoplifter punched a Tesco worker in the face when she was confronted in a car park after stealing four bottles of vodka
CCTV footage shows her picking out the bottles of booze and putting them in her bag
The experienced thief then sneakily covers the loot with a coat over her shoulder - before walking brazely out of the store
When one member of staff attempts to grab the bottles out of her bag - Maughan twists and punches her straight in the face.
Police were called to the area and found Maughan nearby.
She was charged with assault and theft from the shop on March 20 before appearing at Huntingdon Magistrates' Court on March 21, but was released on bail.
However only two weeks later, on April 2, Maughan was back to thieving.
She was spotted by CCTV operators entering Boots in Queensgate Shopping Centre and later leaving with two Ted Baker gift boxes.
But the prolific troublemaker had already been banned from the shopping centre after she was slapped with a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) in July last year.
CCTV continued to monitor her as she walked to another shop in Park Road where she was arrested by the Peterborough City Centre Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) on suspicion of theft from a shop and breaching her CBO.
She was later charged
