Nearly £200 worth of alcohol bottles were stolen at a Tesco store.

Police are hoping to identify a man after numerous bottles of alcohol were stolen from the Tesco Superstore in East Road, Harlow, on January 14.

He entered the shop with a carrier bag and placed the bottles inside the bag.

Police would like to speak to this man. Credit: Essex Police

Police would like to speak to this man. Credit: Essex Police

According to Essex Police, the thief left without making effort to pay the £172.

Now a CCTV image has been released of a man they would like to speak to.

If you have any information, call 101 or report information online at essex.police.uk and cite 42/11452/22.