Monthly Archives: December 2023

According to the Chronicle Live website, Donna Foreman, a Post Office shop worker, left her employer in financial peril by stealing £15,000.

Andrew Philips, the owner, started to notice his business was suffering losses, causing him to have to put his savings in to rectify the shortfall.

The Liverpool Echo website reports that an accountant stole £20k from his employer after resigning his position, following a negative performance review.

After Kieran Moore had left the company, a contractor reported they had not been paid for work carried out and that bank details on their paperwork were wrong.

According to the Stoke On Trent Live website, a worker stole £6,000 from his employer and blew the lot on clothes and other items in one weekend.

Lewis Moore-Martin entered his work premises using a key, deactivated the alarm, went into the safe and helped himself to £6,000 in cash.

According to the Manchester Evening News website, a lettings agent fleeced landlord clients and her bosses out of as much as £130,000.

Joanne Barker secretly defrauded dozens of clients, siphoning money into her own accounts and her personal trainer’s – with whom she was having an affair.

The BBC News website reports that an Asda worker stole more than £26,000 over a three-month period, by creating fake refunds.

Aaron Hughes – jailed for a year – used the money to pay for “luxury” shopping trips to Harrods and Selfridges and holidays.

The Retail Gazette website writes that employees account for 40% of the value of theft across UK retailers, according to new research from Retail Economics and Thruvision. Two-thirds of respondents thought financial pressure due to the cost-of-living crisis had led to a rise in theft by distribution centre staff over the past year. Staff working …