Shoplifter ‘didn’t know she could be punished for theft’

A teenage shoplifter who tore out a woman’s hair as she attacked five members of staff at Superdrug has walked free from court. Miriam Diutala, 18, threw punches and offered to fight workers at the pharmacy’s flagship store on Oxford Street last 19 October. Prosecutor Nathan Paine-Davey told Westminster Magistrates’ Court: ‘The defendant, along with three other females…were spotted trying to steal items by members of staff. ‘Diutala was stopped at the main entrance when a member of staff asked…