A WOMAN has appeared in court accused of fleeing a petrol station without paying.

Emma Racheal Kitcher, 38, has been charged with six counts of making off without payment.

It is alleged that a vehicle left a petrol forecourt in Wellworth Road, Lymington without paying on multiple occasions between April 13 and September 25.

Kitcher, of Ipley Way in Hythe, appeared at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Friday, October 4, where she was further remanded on conditional bail.

She is next due to appear at the same court on Thursday, December 5.