Police criticised over meat thief arrest

A prosecutor has slammed police for leaving a mentally ill woman in a cell for over 24 hours without treatment after she was caught stealing meat. Susan Chapman, 50, wandered out of her home in Harlesden, northwest London, in a ‘trance like’ state on Tuesday afternoon and headed for Oxford Street. The former carer drifted into the Marks & Spencer branch where she packed meat worth £463.10 into a black bin bag she had taken with her. The would-be thief…