Monthly Archives: July 2019

The Birmingham Live website reports that a serial shoplifter who was banned from every Asda in the country has struck at a branch of the supermarket in Coventry.

Serena Frances Lillah Downs – now jailed for 20 weeks – was banned from the store nationwide, after a £1,000 thieving spree early in 2019.

The Bolton News website reports that a nursery manager stole £58,000 from her employer and used some of the money to pay for her son’s wedding.

A court heard that Hazel Leece carried out numerous thefts over five years – a fraudulent £78 spend at M&S led to many further discrepancies being uncovered.

According to the Chronicle Live website, a brazen thief hired a taxi to take him shoplifting as part of a thieving spree which has now seen him banned from the Silverlink Shopping Park in Tyneside.

Cocksure crook Dean Robinson covered security tags in tin foil to evade detection, but was eventually caught by detectives who linked him to a string of store thefts.

According to Yahoo! News, a former doctor’s practice manager has been jailed after defrauding the surgery she worked for of almost £600,000.

Carolyn Lightwing transferred £596,000 into personal bank accounts she had set up while falsely claiming to be a supplier to the surgery.

The Liverpool Echo website reports that an office manager at a tech company in Warrington stole £228,000-worth of postage stamps and printer cartridges, in what was described as an ‘industrial scale’ scam.

Karen Belton used her employer’s business accounts to over-order huge quantities of both items, before selling them on eBay.

According to the Ely Standard website, a fraudster who swindled almost £350,000 out of the NHS has been ordered to pay back the majority of his ill-gotten gains.

Phillip Hufton was ordered under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) to pay back a total sum of £294,747 or face another three years in prison.