Monthly Archives: March 2021

The Birmingham Live website reports that a prolific thief has been banned from every M&S and Co-op shop in the UK along with 3,967 Tesco stores.

Alex Bingham – jailed for six months – will be banned from any retail premises in Gloucestershire expect for pharmacies and post offices.

The Worksop Guardian website reports that a council’s finance officer stole more than £60,000 to help pay off her accumulated credit card debts.

Over a 12-month period, Kerry Wheatley diverted refunds of business rates, due to be paid to a number of businesses, into a single bank account.

According to the carehome.co.uk website, a care home administrator stole £130,000 from her employers, including £7,100 from an 81-year-old resident.

Tammy Foster – jailed for just two years – paid herself higher wages and transferred £116,000 to her own account that she said had been owed to suppliers.

The Chronicle Live website reports that a prolific shoplifter was caught trying to steal more than £300-worth of alcohol from a Newcastle supermarket.

Lynn Wilson has 67 convictions for 155 previous offences, but that didn’t stop her attempting to stealing 11 bottles of spirits from Asda.

The BBC News website reports that a council supervisor stole smoke alarms and other equipment and sold them on eBay to try to pay off a £65,000 gambling debt.

Iain Gardyne stole more than 200 separate items over a four-year period, which had an estimated value of between £5,000 and £10,000.