Woman who stole $20 worth of meat by scanning it as cheap vegetables on a supermarket self-service machine is caught after she returns the next day to pull the same stunt

By Ashleigh Davis For Daily Mail Australia 06:04 29 Jul 2016, updated 11:55 29 Jul 2016

Syvana Blight went to PAK'nSAVE on March 9 and printed cheap barcodes
She placed them on packets of meat and scanned them for $2.53
Blight returned the next day to commit same crime, was caught by security
She verbally abused the security guard and scratched his wrist
Was sentenced to four months community detention, told to pay $63.32

A woman who stole meat from a New Zealand supermarket by scanning it as vegetables was caught after she returned to the store the next day to commit the same crime.

Syvana Blight went to PAK'nSAVE supermarket on March 9 and printed out fruit and vegetable tags from a barcode printer, a court heard.

In Whanganui District Court Judge David Cameron said Blight then placed the $1 barcodes on packets of meat, reported the NZ Herald.

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Syvana Blight stole $20 worth of meat from a New Zealand supermarket by scanning it as 89c onions, and returned the next day to commit the same crime again

She then took the meat packets to the self-service machines and scanned them for just $2.53.

The next day she went back to the supermarket and pulled the same stunt by walking out with a $20 packet of meat which she scanned as 89 cents worth of onions.

Blight was confronted by a security manager who described her as being 'verbally abusive' when he tried to give her a notice for trespassing, the court heard.

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She hit the notice out of the security guard's hand and scratched his wrist as he tried to pick it up off the floor.

Blight has pleaded guilty to shoplifting and assault and was sentenced to four months community detention and six months of supervision.

She was also ordered to pay a reparation cost of $63.32.

Blight appeared in the Whanganui District Court (pictured) where Judge Cameron sentenced her to four months community service and six months of supervision. She also has to be a reparation of $63.32