I would like to just heap more shame on Tesco with regard to the situation of Sacha Hall, 21, who is due to appear in crown court charged with theft….of goods left out for the bin lorries. They had to junk much food apparently after a power cut and could not then sell the produce.

Firstly, Ms Hall and friends helped themselves to about £200 worth of food,we are told, but it obviously couldn’t be sold and so is actually worthless to Tesco. This apparent £200 figure is deliberate misinformation.

Secondly, I applaud her attitude in not wanting to see good food go to waste. I recently saw a programme on ‘The People’s Supermarket’ in London where the head of the project held a fund raising dinner using only items acquired by ‘freeganing’. The man highlighted the shameful amounts wasted by our supermarkets through the medium of prime time T.V, yet he was not prosecuted. I salute that man.

Thirdly, Tesco are wrong to send round the Police with battering rams to her house and treat her like a Mr. Big drug dealer. Tesco are the worlds most powerful retailer and the only real crime is them not letting people use the cast offs if necessary. I hear that she and her friends were passing the food packets above the roof of the store and into her flat. I do not know if the Tesco refuse area is locked or not but if it was, then at best a charge of trespass should be all that is applicable. ‘Theft of valuable goods’, I cannot conceived as being a meritable charge.

I for one will boycott Tesco if this woman is incarcerated of fined heavily. I hope that more people feel the same way. They pillage the worlds resources, put dairy farmers out of business at a jaw dropping rate, and the councils charge us for leaving bin lid’s ajar if we happen to buy too much of their procude with excessive packaging.

If Tesco must throw food away it is regrettable and wrong but it would have only then been food for the seagull’s and rat’s at the tip. They are natures survivors, like the children foraging a living from the refuse tips in India. Nature leaves nothing to waste. Are we to start arresting gull’s, rat’s and canny children or possibly insects? Maybe there should be a law against worms? Tesco could make a mint out of that!

I hope common sense prevails and the courts throw this case out or rap her knuckles for possibly a minor misdemenour.