In October, the police were called to Ikea in Uppsala after store staff discovered something suspicious. A 35-year-old couple had left the department store with goods worth SEK 9,000, but the receipt showed that they had only paid a third of the sum, reports The Express.
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Therefore, the staff became suspicious
It was a staff member who alerted the police after noticing that the amount on the couple’s receipt did not match the items they had purchased.
When the police then went through the department store’s surveillance cameras, the suspicions turned out to be correct.
The receipt stated that the couple had bought small items such as scented candles and a candle lantern. But the couple also had larger pieces of furniture with them, such as a relief table and a TV bench. The couple suspected of having stolen goods to the value of SEK 6,352.
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The couple denies wrongdoing: “We felt stressed”
The couple denies any crime and explains in questioning that they are well off and therefore have no need to steal.
– We also lacked time and felt stressed. It was also the lunch break and there were a lot of people in the tills. You heard other people scan their goods and maybe we thought it was ours that was being scanned, says the woman in an interrogation, according to Expressen.
The prosecutor demands that the couple be sentenced to a suspended sentence and 50 daily fines, which would end up totaling SEK 88,000.
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