FOUR shoplifters have been sentenced by the courts after almost £1,500 worth of clothes were stolen.

Two separate cases came before the courts recently involving the theft of clothing from Primark and North Face.

The Primark incident saw three out-of-town criminals target the Primark store in Warrington, while a Warrington defendant also struck at the North Face store at Cheshire Oaks.

Warrington Magistrates’ Court heard how a theft occurred at Primark in Golden Square Shopping Centre in Warrington town centre on June 30 this year.

Clothing worth £508.60 was pinched, with Andreea-Ioana Raducan, Serban Gheorghita and Narcisa Raducan admitting their guilt.

Each, aged 20, 22 and 39 respectively, and who all live on Irvine Street in Leigh, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft from a shop.

They were each sentenced by magistrates to a financial penalty, including £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Andreea-Ioana Raducan was fined £200, while Gheorghita was fined £120 and ordered to pay a £48 statutory surcharge, and Narcisa Raducan told to pay a £200 fine and £80 surcharge.

A separate case involving Warrington was heard before Chester Magistrates’ Court, with Mirela Luca.

The 35-year-old, of Cherry Court near the town centre, indicated a guilty plea to a charge of theft from a shop.

He stole clothing to the value of £955 from the North Face store at Cheshire Oaks designer outlet village near Ellesmere Port.

Magistrates sentenced him to a 12-month community order, including 80 hours of unpaid work, and told him he must pay costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £85 and a statutory surcharge of £114.