Stealing YOUR OWN stuff from shops

What would be the implications?

Say you went into a supermarket, with a bottle of vodka, proof you'd paid for it, like a receipt and put a distinguishable marking on the item, so there can be no doubt it's yours, placed it onto the shelf, then proceed to what would blatantly appear to others commit a theft, by stuffing it into your jumper or down your trousers and then doing a runner.

Even if they called the police, surely no crime would have been committed that you could be charged with?

The shop would just ban you.

Maybe wasting police time? It would be fairly obvious to you before you committed the "theft" that they would get involved, and it would certainly be a waste of their time.

That's a question of law. Can someone be committing the offence of Wasting Police Time, without them contacting the police? Absolutely not, that isn't what the offence was intended for. Further, if they can commit it without themselves contacting the police, surely the threshold would not be that a person could reasonably think the police could get involved.

That's a question of law. Can someone be committing the offence of Wasting Police Time, without them contacting the police? Absolutely not, that isn't what the offence was intended for.

Where a person causes any wasteful employment of the police by knowingly making to any person a false report tending to show that an offence has been committed, or to give rise to apprehension for the safety of any persons or property, or tending to show that he has information material to any police inquiry, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for not more than six months or to a fine of not more than two hundred pounds or to both.

I seem to remember a case where a guy was done for stealing his own car from the garage where it was being repaired but can't find it on Halsbury's so forget why it was decided as such.

What would be the implications?

Say you went into a supermarket, with a bottle of vodka, proof you'd paid for it, like a receipt and put a distinguishable marking on the item, so there can be no doubt it's yours, placed it onto the shelf, then proceed to what would blatantly appear to others commit a theft, by stuffing it into your jumper or down your trousers and then doing a runner.

Even if they called the police, surely no crime would have been committed that you could be charged with?

I think it was R v Turner and ruled that way because the car was deemed to belong to the service station because they were in possession and control of the car.

I think it was R v Turner and ruled that way because the car was deemed to belong to the service station because they were in possession and control of the car.