Every store targeted by Corby shoplifter Jane Hill in her £6k thieving spree
A prolific Corby shoplifter has been ordered to pay back thousands of pounds after she spent more than three months nicking items worth £6,241.45 from stores across our town.
Jane Hill, who is one of the town’s best known shoplifters, has been handed another term of imprisonment after committing 21 new offences between the end of August and mid-December, 2025.
The 40-year-old, of Stephenson Way, Corby, was handed a 75-week jail term when she appeared before magistrates last month.
She pleaded guilty to;
- on August 25 stealing clothes worth £112 belonging to Next
- on August 26, taking gift sets worth £118.50 from Next
- on August 30 stealing gift sets to the value of £234 from Next
- on September 19, stealing items worth £392 belonging to Next
- on September 23, stealing perfume to the value of £132 from Next
- on September 23, stealing perfume worth £148 belonging to Next
- on October 1, taking goods worth £58, belonging to the Shell Garage
- on October 2, taking items worth £850 from Boots
- on October 6, stealing gift boxes to the value of £310 belonging to Next
- on October 8, taking goods worth £183 from Co-op
- on October 10, stealing various items worth £178.45 belonging to B&M
- on October 12, taking goods to the value of £132 from Next
- on October 20, taking items to the value of £312 from Next
- on October 20, (for the second time) stealing goods to the value of £312 belonging to Next
- on October 21, stealing goods worth £500 from Next
- on October 27, taking gift sets to the value of £645 belonging to Next
- on October 29, taking goods worth £182 from Next
- on October 30, stealing clothing worth £340 from Next
- on October 30, taking items to the value of £450 belonging to Boots
- on November 9, stealing gift sets to the value of £265.50 belonging to Next
- on December 12, taking handbags worth £567 from TK Maxx
Hill, who has addiction issues, was ordered to pay back £4,368.45 in compensation to some of the affected stores.
Hill was in breach of a suspended sentence handed to her in June, for 12 offences of shoplifting carried out in spring at B&M, Curry’s, Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, Tesco, Superdrug and Boots. That sentence of 33 weeks was activated and added on to her new sentence of 42 weeks, with the prison terms to be served consecutively because of her terrible record of offending.
Hill has previously been jailed multiple times for dozens of shoplifting offences as well as driving crimes.
Her son Jayden Hill is currently serving a 30 month sentence for class-A drug dealing.
Back in 2020 she was seriously injured when she was the passenger in a horror crash that killed her partner, driver Joe Rooney.
Police have long suspected that shoplifters in Corby are stealing to order, in bulk, and items are being sold on by professional criminals.