Monthly Archives: October 2021

The Sun website reports that a sales manager stole £90,000 from his boss but was spared jail after he claimed he needed the cash to feed and clothe his quadruplets.

Matthew Davies secretly sold second-hand vehicles and pocketed the cash, falsifying documents to cover his tracks.

The Chronicle Live website reports that a former bank worker has admitted stealing more than £1.3m from her employers.

Laura Matthews transferred a total of £1,309,719.67p into her own account, over a six-year period whilst working for Virgin Money.

As reported on the Liverpool Echo website, Robert Adamson swindled his employer out of more than £34,000 over two months, in order to meet his cocaine debts.

A court heard that Adamson had turned to crime after his dealers made serious threats and his car was smashed up outside his home.

The Hull Live website reports that several Hull supermarket stores are resorting to security tagging certain meat products to prevent shoplifting.

Two Co-op food stores and a 24-hour Sainsbury’s Local decided to tag some items to protect high value or frequently stolen items.

The Dorset Live website reports that a convicted fraudster who stole nearly £500,000 from her employer, has been ordered to repay £120,000.

Emma Elizabeth Rhodes was sentenced to five years in prison in November 2020, after defrauding £437,431.68 from Norco Holdings.