Category Archives: Employee Fraud

As reported in The Westmorland Gazette, an assistant manager of a Lake District hotel has been jailed for four months after stealing thousands of pounds from his employer.

Tyrone Petit was employed at the Inn on the Square hotel in Keswick, and part of his duties included banking the hotel’s takings on a daily basis.

The Hartlepool Mail reports that a fraudster who cheated his employer out of £40,000 to fund his drug addiction has been jailed.

John Simpson worked with Gary Dangerfield – MD of a Birmingham-based compressor firm which supplied Brooktherm – who raised inflated, duplicated or false invoices for Simpson to authorise.

Two soldiers and an accomplice have been sentenced for ‘stealing to order’ more than £45,000 of state-of-the-art equipment from the SAS.
Sergeants Craig Davenport and Stephen Suffield took items from MoD stores, which they passed on to Andrew Stevens, who sold them through contacts made on eBay.

The Eastern Daily Press reports on the case of a trusted assistant manager of a Norwich paint centre who stole more than £15,000 from his employer to feed his online gambling addiction.
Simon Brock, who worked at the Dulux Decorator Centre, pocketed money from false refunds in 69 transactions and transferred the cash straight into his own personal bank account.

A story on Lincolnshire Live gives details of a gambler who put thousands of pounds of his employer’s money put into girlfriend’s bank account, to feed his £300-a-month gambling habit.
On completion of a contract for his employer – HCG Heating Construction Ltd – he gave the customer the bank details of his partner for payment.

According to Kent Online, an officer who stole police equipment was collared when detectives took to eBay to find the missing items.

PC Paul Withrington had been stealing for two years and stolen gear was found in his police van and even his lunch box, Canterbury Crown Court heard.