University criminology lecturer, 34, faces jail after shoplifting more than £1,000 of high-end Le Creuset cookware, more than 30 M&S steaks and bottles of wine

A university criminology lecturer is facing jail after a shoplifting spree stealing over a thousand pounds worth of Le Creuset cookware, premium steaks, wine and gin. Pauline Al Said, a former senior lecturer in criminology at Bath Spa University, outside court Pauline Al Said and Mark Wheatcroft outside Salisbury Law Courts where both were convicted Her husband was found guilty of one count of theft and one count of assault. Al Said, formerly a senior lecturer in criminology at Bath Spa University, and her 56-year-old spouse made the first shoplifting attempt at the Old Barn nursery garden centre in Horsham, West Sussex, the court heard. Ms Duff said Al Said was walking around Marks and Spencer on Winchester High Street, Hants, when an undercover security detective spotted her loading 'packets of meat' into a trolley. Al Said and her husband Mark Wheatcroft, pictured outside court at a previous court hearing Le Creuset cookware was found among the items taken in the £581.43 garden centre theft 'When Ms Al Said realised she had been detected, she chose that moment to leave the store out the side exit,' jurors were told.