rodmalcolm published Asylum seeker stole face cream worth more than £400 from...

An asylum seeker was caught shoplifting in Nottingham three months after arriving in the UK, a court heard.Kurdish Heman Sanat was with a second man who managed to elude Boots security staff as they tried to get away with face cream worth £443.City magistrates gave him a one-year conditional discharge after hearing that the criminal conviction could hamper his prospects of gaining asylum.Helen Rooks, mitigating, said Sanat comes from Iraq and arrived in this country three months ago. He...