Monthly Archives: November 2017

The News & Star reports that a night-shift worker at Argos stole computer games worth over £800 by stuffing them down his trousers.

Peter Sharman stole 23 games – some he sold on and others he kept, so he could use them himself – as he committed what his lawyer admitted was an “utterly stupid” crime.

The Lurgan Mail reports that two women travelled from Dublin to Northern Ireland for a shoplifting spree, netting themselves almost £2,000-worth of goods in one day.

Margaret O’Reilly and Margaret Maughan stole electrical goods, cosmetics, homeware and clothing from across Lurgan and Newry.

As reported in Somerset’s County Gazette, an employee stole 2,000 bottles of Estée Lauder fragrance from his employer, worth £203,000 on the high street.

Paul Deacon started selling the bottles of Tom Ford branded perfume for £2 to £3, but then charged between £20 and £30 for the items on eBay.

As reported in the News & Star, a thief took a knife into a Carlisle supermarket to aid his shoplifting.
After stealing Bluetooth speakers from Asda, he returned the next day, this time bringing a Stanley knife to sever security tags.

As reported in the Burnley Express, a prolific shoplifter used her teeth to rip off security tags from bottles of rum in a branch of Tesco.

After being detained, Mary Howarth – a drug addict with a long criminal record – owned up and asked if the store could “turn a blind eye” to what she had done, a court was told.

Mail Online reports that a Barclays banker helped computer hackers launder £16million by setting up 400 fake accounts.

Nilesh Sheth used fake documents to set up ‘mule’ accounts for a network of cyber bandits while he worked as a personal banking manager.