Monthly Archives: January 2017

SomersetLive reports that a former mayor of Bruton and town councillor has admitted in court that he shoplifted after descending into a spiral of depression.

Alex Rubbo had started drinking in a bid to self-medicate his problems and then helped himself to cigarettes and alcohol from the branch of Spar where he was working.

The Daily Post reports that a brazen shoplifter who filled a supermarket trolley to the brim with meat and left without paying, has been jailed for 18 weeks – “the only sentence to protect shopkeepers”, according to the prosecuting magistrate.

As reported on the Economia website, British companies have reported more incidences of fraud and cyber crime than any other country in the world, behind only Colombia.

According to Kroll’s Global Fraud and Risk Report, the most common types of fraud in the UK were theft of physical assets and the misappropriation of funds, with most fraudsters coming from inside the company.

According to the Heart website, a couple who stole more than £100,000 pounds worth of designer clothes across the UK have been jailed.

Ionut and Mirela Vasile struck at luxury outlets Louis Vuitton, Harvey Nichols and Burberry, with CCTV footage showing them pulling off a shoplifting scam in Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Nottingham and Milton Keynes.

An employee of a Savills letting agency swindled her employer out of around £16,000, taking cash received as tenants’ deposits.

Julie Feilden, a lettings administrator, was made redundant from the Newmarket branch in 2015, but asked if she could take the books home to get them up-to-date.

According to The Sun, a 79-year-old great grandmother began a five-year shoplifting spree – because she was bored.

June Humphreys has clocked up her 39th theft, after starting to steal in her seventies to get out of her home in Crewe, travelling on her free bus pass to swipe hundreds of pounds of goods.