Category Archives: Employee Fraud

As reported on the Lincolnshire Live website, a charity treasurer has been jailed after she swindled £24,500 from her employer – Cleethorpes Rescue Service – forcing it to close.

Roxanna Bridgeland, stole money and stock over five years, made false claims for Gift Aid and even sold a £13,000 life boat on eBay.

As reported on Kent Online, a valued member of an Ashford family firm betrayed their trust and secretly pocketed £100,000.

Donna Hartshorne – jailed for 18 months – was off work with neck and back problems when her bosses discovered she had set up three private accounts.

The Sun reports that a besotted account manager stole more than half a million pounds from her employer to give to an American serviceman that she had met online.

Pam Wareing, stole cash from a client’s account at her employer of 20 years – Eashams solicitors in Blackpool – tranferring it to a bank in Dubai over a 46-day period.

According to the Droitwich Advertiser, a former pub manager betrayed the trust of his employer by pocketing the wages of ‘ghost employees’, after an investigation into common assault led to the discovery.

Christopher May admitted the £33,000 fraud while managing the Honey Bee pub in Doverdale, claiming wages on behalf staff who had at some time worked at the pub but no longer did.

As reported in the Braintree & Witham Times, a man has been sentenced to a year in jail after stealing more than £86,000 from a former employer.

Daren Howarth admitted theft whilst working as a booking agent in the office of Excellent Connections Limited, a taxi company in Braintree.

Some cheering news on the This Is Money website, as it reports that reducing store thefts helped the UK arm of Whole Foods Market make a profit for its second consecutive year.

The upmarket American health food supermarket said its profit increased in relation to turnover, ‘primarily reflecting improved shrink’