Prolific shoplifter Phillip Padgett, 32, has finally felt the weight of the law - after an armed policeman chased him down using a teenager's bicycle in South Shields, Tyneside.

Prolific shoplifter Phillip Padgett, 32, has finally felt the weight of the law - after an armed policeman chased him down using a teenager's bicycle in South Shields, Tyneside.

A police officer commandeered a teenager’s bicycle to chase a steak thief in South Shields in early June. Police received reports of a man acting aggressively at a supermarket on…