Monthly Archives: October 2017

The Sun reports that changes to the way victims’ reports of a crime are assessed are expected to see 150,000 fewer offences being investigated each year.

New guidelines include a directive that crimes involving a loss of under £50 should not be investigated unless there is an identified suspect.

According to The Sun, a department store worker stole £3,000 worth of designer clothes and sold them on the black market to fund his drug habit.

Jake Coxon was caught after suspicious managers installed spy cameras in the stockroom of the Manchester branch of Selfridges.

The Slough & South Bucks Express reports that two men who faked a robbery to steal £7million for themselves have been found guilty of conspiracy to steal.

Former security guards Mohammed Siddique and Ranjeev Singh staged the robbery while working for a cash handling company in an attempt to steal 19 bags of cash which was due to be transported to the Bank of Ireland.

According to the Stoke Sentinel, Daniel Compton stole more than £100 worth of cheese from a delivery that had been left outside a shop and then sold it on Facebook, using a false name.

The cheese had been delivered to an independent retailer who later saw it advertised on the social networking site.

As reported on Jewellery Focus, Britain’s shops collectively lose £800m per year due to shoplifting, according to new research.
The Metropolitan Police had the highest number of shoplifting offences, at an astounding 47,580 – the equivalent of 130 incidents a day

According to the GetSurrey website, a former pub manager has avoided prison despite stealing more than £22,000 from his employers to fund his cocaine habit.

Martin Slocombe, former manager of The Blue Ball in Walton-on-Thames, only had his criminal activity uncovered after he failed to attend a meeting of pub managers.