Video: Thieves stoop really low with poppy tin thefts

While most people gave up their hard earned cash to support war veterans in the run up to Remembrance day but some crafty and

Christopher O'Neill, 33, from Derby was jailed for 18 weeks for stealing a poppy tin from an Argos store in the town.

It contained just £4 and he used the money to pay his bus fare home. He admitted to police that he "couldn't stoop any lower."

His solicitor told the court hearing that he had a heroin addiction.

While in Calgary, Canada, Dwayne Shane Soroka, 31 is wanted by police for the theft of a poppy collection box from a liquor store.

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