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of stolen stock before wrestling a large \u00a375 bunny-themed bag into her waistband.<\/p>\n<p>The haul of soft toys was taken from the family-run St Peters Garden Centre, Worcester, on June 7.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Armstrong, from St Peters Garden Centre, said they were alerted to the theft when the woman ‘skipped out of the entrance and the alarm went off.’ <\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tSign up for all of the latest stories\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<p>Start your day informed with Metro’s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/news-updates\/?signup-source=news-article\">News Updates<\/a><\/strong> newsletter or get <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/newsletters\/breaking-news?ito=news-article&?signup_source=news-article-link\">Breaking News<\/a> <\/strong>alerts the moment it happens. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He told <strong>Metro <\/strong>the team then checked the CCTV to find she had been ‘scouting out’ the shop’s large selection of Jellycats. <\/p>\n<p>‘At first we were looking back at the footage and it was one or two little Jellycats, popping them down the trousers. <\/p>\n<p>‘Then you get to 15 minutes in and she goes for it,’ he said, adding: ‘She walks in as a regular woman and walks out looking eight months pregnant.’<\/p>\n<p>Jamie said the theft felt ‘so brazen’ that the team posted the video to the garden centre’s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"570\" height=\"586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SEI_255733350-897d-e1750087619496.jpg\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23425420\" alt=\"A video grab from CCTV footage showing a woman stealing a large Jellycat soft toy by stuffing it down her trousers.\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>CCTV footage captured the moment the woman wrestled a large soft toy down her trousers. (Picture: St Peter’s Garden Centre \/ SWNS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It quickly garnered 1.8 million plays at the time of writing, as well as support from the local community.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie said helpful social media users pointed out the woman had been asking online for stockists of Jellycats days before the heist. <\/p>\n<p>He said customers then located the bunny bag being flogged on Facebook Marketplace – and suggested the woman had even photographed it for resale in her car.<\/p>\n<p>‘We are a family-run garden centre so we’re not as powerful at the big chains or supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>‘We don’t have as much budget for security, so it does feel like we get targeted,’ he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Jellycat display has now been moved closer to the customer service desk, he said, but the online response had been heartening: ‘Following on from posting this, people have been saying they’ll visit us now. We’ve had so much support from it. It’s probably given us more faith, if anything.’<\/p>\n<p>The garden centre’s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stpetersgardencentre\/videos\/1383365589601901?locale=en_GB\">Facebook page<\/a> has received praised from locals since, with one writing: ‘Love your social media gang for doing this! Proper shocking behaviour.’<\/p>\n<p>Another commented: ‘Love the socials! Hate the criminals. You might be gaining customers at least from the great social posts! I just followed and will visit as a first timer very soon. I hope you catch her.’<\/p>\n<p>Some of the toys retail for between \u00a318 to \u00a355, while rare and retired designs can be resold for up to hundreds of pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Jellycat brand of quirky stuffed animals and plush food items has seen a recent explosion in popularity. <\/p>\n<p>West Mercia Police saidenquiries into the theft were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T16S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/06\/16\/12\/99416129-0-image-m-19_1750073029683.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-06-16T12:21:48+0100″,”description”:”The huge haul of Jellycat soft toys were taken from St Peter’s Garden Centre, Worcester, after a woman stuffed a “significant amount” of the stock into her trousers and bags.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/06\/16\/7476990778448852872\/480x270_MP4_7476990778448852872.mp4″,”height”:480,”width”:270}<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/woman-caught-stealing-400-worth-of-jellycat-toys-by-stuffing-them-down-her-trousers\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman caught stealing \u00a3400 worth of Jellycat toys by stuffing them down her trousers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6543,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions\/6543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.burn-the-priest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}