The Lidl cashier from Woolwich who let customers wheel their trolleys through his till without paying for all their items has been jailed.

Ilesanmi Oyinloye, 40, carried out the scam at the Abbey Wood supermarket at least eight times over a three week period in April last year.

He has been jailed for 13 months after a jury at the Old Bailey found him guilty of eight counts of fraud by abuse of position.

The court heard Oyinloye pretended to scan all the items but only charged for a single can of plum tomatoes or a carrier bag.

His scam only ended when one customer walked off with a full trolley containing two large boxes after paying for just one tube of toothpaste.

Oyinloye was arrested the same day but claimed that the customer had showed him a receipt for the full trolley and so charged him only for the new items.

Prosecutor James Vine said: "The footage proves the man never showed a receipt for what he had already bought.

"Oyinloye said the customer just came back to pay for a tube of toothpaste but a whole lot more items went through that scanner in addition to the two boxes."

He  added: "We say he must have known what he was doing."

Jurors heard how the first two frauds took place on 1 April last year.

In the second, Oyinloye appears to scan through several items - but the receipt only showed £1.18 for two insulated bags.

The following day Oyinloye charged a customer 62p for two cans of plum tomatoes before allowing them to walk off with fully loaded trolleys.

There were two other fraudulent shopping visits the same day and two more on 9 April last year.

Oyinloye, of Brookhill Road, was handed a nine months sentence for the fraud counts and four months to run consecutively for possession of a false identity document.