Monthly Archives: August 2017

SomersetLive reports that a ‘greedy’ teenager stole bikes and biking equipment when he was working for The Bicycle Chain in Bridgwater.

Alex Long started work at the shop in July 2015, and suspicions were raised when the shop’s owner noticed that a bike had gone missing.

As reported in the Oxford Mail, a hotel night manager stole nearly £17,000 of his employer’s money in an attempt to woo a man he wanted to be his lover.

Deanardo Blacklaws worked at the Oxford Belfry Hotel in Milton Common for two months in 2016 and, within days of starting the role, began an elaborate scheme to charm a man he was ‘besotted’ with.

As reported in The Mail, a gang of three men distracted staff at a Carphone Warehouse store, removing security devices fitted to Apple iPhones and swapped them with dummy phones.

Carlisle Crown Court was told that the gang then repeated the crime at a Vodafone store in the same shopping centre on the same day.