BAMFIELD PIECE
March 1st, 2001
Keith NuthallTHE MAN who launched 'Sue-a-Shoplifter Ltd' in Britain, perched on a settee in the meeting room of the Institute of Directors in London and told me that he was working for fun.Not for Professor Joshua Bamfield the lure of lucre generated by the 45 per cent commission on damages or the mantle of the country's greatest crime-buster, but instead academic curiosity, a project in his chosen subject, retail crime."I thought that I'll do this for a couple of years and then go back into academic life, but it's not turned out that way," said the director of ...
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