Jayne Rand made £88,000 in sales from the stolen designer bags A 48-year-old woman who stole 905 designer handbags over a three year period has been jailed for 18 months.
Jayne Rand from Swindon in Wiltshire, carried out a nationwide "campaign of shoplifting" and took handbags and purses worth up to £135,000.
She was eventually caught at a shopping centre in Cwmbran, south Wales.
Her haul, Newport Crown Court previously heard, included bags made by Mulberry, Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Dior and Burberry.
Rand sold some of the bags on online auction site eBay.
She is known to have made £88,000 in sales from the stolen bags, their retail value would have been closer to double that figure.
On Friday, Judge Rhys Rowlands told her she had "made a business of stealing" and her actions had been "planned, calculated and persistent".
"I have not seen such a case before. You travelled significant distances to steal from up and down the country and target high value bags," the judge added.
"You made a business of stealing, you must take the consequences."
Andrew Taylor, defending, said: "She bitterly regrets everything that she's done."
The court has previously heard Rand, a housewife and mother-of-two carried out her crimes by walking into shops and department stores without a handbag.
She would then remove the security tag from a bag that caught her eye and put it over her shoulder before calmly walking out undetected.
But she was was caught by security staff at a shopping centre in Cwmbran.
Jayne Rand arriving for sentence at Newport Crown Court She admitted stealing 905 handbags and four purses from House of Fraser and various retail businesses between December 2009 and December 2012.
The court was told the cost price of the handbags was in excess of £130,000 but prosecutor David Wooler said the retail price would be much greater.
Rand sold many of the handbags to other women and earned £88,000 over three years.
She also admitted converting criminal assets from 838 handbags.
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