A Hythe woman has been charged after a driver left a petrol station without paying several times.

Police said a vehicle left a petrol forecourt on Wellworth Road on numerous occasions without making payment between April 13 and September 25. 

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Emma Racheal Kitcher, aged 38, of Ipley Way in Hythe, Southampton has been charged with six counts of making off without payment.

She appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Friday, October 4, where she was granted conditional bail.

Kitcher is due to appear at the same court on Thursday, December 5.