Benefits mum who made £2m shoplifting threatens to go back to life of crime if nobody gives her a job soon
A BENEFITS-scrounging mum-of-six has said she will go back to stealing if somebody doesn’t give her a job soon.
Kim Farry, 54 – who made £2million in a 45-year shoplifting career – lives rent-free in posh Fulham, West London, and pockets £15,000 in handouts every year.
The shameless career criminal said she has been looking for a job in order to wean herself off stealing, after being jailed five times in her life.
But the woman dubbed the “shoplifting queen” revealed she cared little for her victims and had no qualms about returning to her life of crime if nobody hired her soon.
She told the : “If I had to go back out there and return to that life, I would.
“If I don’t get a job, then I have got no choice and I will go back out there.
“I did try a few times to turn it around but it’s difficult. It’s not like I’ve not tried.”
Farry also sensationally claimed to be both “trustworthy” and a “hard worker”, despite having spent most of her adult life stealing to supplement her benefits.
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The reformed shoplifter began looking for work last year, as revealed in a Channel 5 documentary.
But she complained that nobody would hire her because she was “too common”.
And she told cameras that she wouldn’t take a job that earned less than the £3,000-a-month she calculated she would need to support her lifestyle.
Farry – who paid for multiple tattoos, plastic surgery and designer clobber by nicking items from shops – said: “I’ve applied for a few jobs but never get anything back.
“They want loads of qualifications and I ain’t got anything. I can’t even talk properly. I’m too common.
“I would work in a gym. There was one here at £18,000-a-year but that’s not enough money. I need more money than that – I need double that.”
The mum, who says her dream job would be working in fashion with Gok Wan, said she wanted to earn enough to cover her rent with a bit extra on top for “a few luxuries”.
She said in August that she had given up looking for work because she didn’t think she would ever find one that would fund her lifestyle.
She also complained her two-bedroom flat in one of London’s most exclusive areas was a “step down” for her, saying: “It’s not that bad but my other homes were much better.”
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