'Career shoplifter' threatened to stab guards at Cambridge John Lewis and Sainsbury's

A "career shoplifter" threatened to stab guards at Cambridge John Lewis and Sainsbury's as she was trying to steal items.

Reina Jorsling, who was jailed on Tuesday (February 12), also kicked a police officer when she was arrested.

Jorsling, 33, hid perfume worth £230 in her bag at John Lewis in the Grand Arcade on August 20 last year.

When challenged she threatened to stab the department store's security guard and made off.

On September 11 she attempted to steal £62 of alcohol from Sainsbury's in Sidney Street.

When a security guard threatened her, she took out a small kitchen knife and threatened to stab him in the chest. She then escaped on foot, shouting: "I will stab you!"

When police caught up with her later that week, Jorsling, of no fixed abode, kicked one and threatened to headbutt them both as they tried to arrest her.

She was found guilty of threatening a person with a blade and two counts of common assault, and was slapped with a 19-month jail sentence, at Peterborough Crown Court on Tuesday.

DC Mike Minett, who investigated, said: “Jorsling is a career shoplifter. She has previously been convicted for aggressive and violent behaviour towards store security guards that caught her shoplifting and her offending has now escalated to the point that she has produced a knife to make good her escape.”