Hairdresser wanted to 'help out' policeman accused in shoplifting case
The partner of a police officer accused of assaulting a security guard after shoplifting from a supermarket hatched a plan with her hairdresser to provide a false statement in a bid to stop him losing his job, a court has heard.
Richard Pendlebury, 42, a custody officer with Greater Manchester Police is accused of putting £24 worth of clothes into a child's changing bag as he and his partner shopped in Asda with their children.
