Monthly Archives: June 2015

The Darlington & Stockton Times reports that a carer who was struck off amid allegations of theft forged documents to allow her to continue to work.

Veronica Newton falsified a police record to get another job and kept up the charade until other clients reported things missing from their homes.

The Mirror has a story of a doctor who pretended to be a specialist in trauma, orthopaedics and surgery to win work as an expert witness in court cases.

A medical misconduct tribunal ruled that Titus Odedun had “no right to use the various titles he awarded himself” and found he did so “in order to obtain a greater volume of medico-legal work at a significantly higher fee”.

According to the Falmouth Packet, leaving a petrol station without paying for fuel to be treated as a civil matter by Cornish police.

Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said, “Businesses need to use the civil recovery options already available to recover their losses.”