Nightmare before Christmas with everyday items from frozen food to coffee, laundry detergent and alcohol being targeted by county lines-style shoplifting gangs - with vulnerable women and children trafficked to the UK to commit crime

Shocking footage filmed last night shows two well-dressed women strolling behind a shopper in Piccadilly Circus and stealing items from their bag.

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