‘I blame the system,’ says serial shoplifer Lauren Benham

A serial shoplifter who swiped more than £600 of alcohol days after she was let out of jail complained she has been ‘let down by the system at every turn’. Lauren Benham, 38, was handed an 18-month suspended sentence for a spate of thefts from Co-op on 24 June this year. Benham, of Lambeth, told the Old Bailey she was given no support and cut off from medication when she was last freed. She appeared at the Old Bailey via…