Monthly Archives: June 2023

According to the Stoke Sentinel website, a gambling gambling addict blew her inheritance and then began creating fake invoices to steal more than £21,000 from her employer.

Maxine Parkes – jailed for 20 months – had previously stolen £44,000 from a previous job as a bookkeeper.

According to the Telegraph & Argus website, a car saleswoman has admitted to stealing more than £23,000 from a family-run dealer group in Bradford.

Donna O’Melia took cash payments from customers and kept the money, using it to fund her serious gambling addiction.

A letter on The Guardian website details how one supermarket employee is “burnt out” from dealing with shoplifters in a London store.

The letter from an anonymous contributor details the massive increase in shoplifting and theft that is described as “to order”.

As reported on the Mirror website, a shoplifter stole 144 bars of chocolate right in front of CCTV – only to return later to steal ten jars of coffee.

Jordan Thomson – jailed for 22 weeks, his second sentence this year – was recorded on security cameras stealing the sweets from a branch of Co-Op in Worthing, West Sussex.

The Chemist + Druggist website reports that a pharmacy worker stole more than £330,000 worth of diabetes testing kits from a pharmacy in Leicester.

A court heard how Abdul Nargoliya – jailed for almost 4 years – was found to have deposited £429,000 to gambling companies.