Monthly Archives: June 2016

The Mirror carries a story of a mother who stole £147,251 from her employer to pay for her footie-mad son to travel across Europe to watch Everton play.

Irene Taylor handed cash to her 34-year-old son, Andrew, who stayed in five-star hotels and also had skiing trips.

The East Grinstead Courier gives details of a gang of Gatwick Airport workers which stole millions of pounds worth of goods from their employer.

Huge numbers of cigarettes, perfumes, alcohol and electrical goods – with a combined value of £2,432,665 – were stolen between January 1 and August 1 2013.

The Worcester Observer gives details of Steven Griffiths who worked at DCC Supplies in the city and stole faulty model train parts from the workshop, re-built the models and sold them on eBay.

Griffiths used his daughter’s boyfriend’s information as an alias but his own email address for PayPal.

A story in the Manchester Evening News gives details of a ‘shoplifting’ woman who believed she’d been given a genuine job testing security systems at high-street stores.

A Devon woman was caught shoplifting from Boots and Wilkinsons in April and told police she had recently taken on the role of a ‘personal shoplifter’ – via a job ad on Facebook.

The York Press reports that nearly £4 million was stolen from businesses in North Yorkshire over the last year through online crime.

Between March 2015 and 16, a total of £3,952,171 was reported lost by businesses in North Yorkshire as a result of fraud and hacking.

The Evening Standard reports that a Department for Education worker swiped £1.1 million meant for youth sports projects and used it to buy a luxury flat.

Edward Fowkes Chapman – jailed for over three years – set up two companies and authorised seven separate payments to them over a two-year period.