Category Archives: Employee Fraud

Major high street retailers in the UK should be bracing for impact as shoplifters are set to significantly erode their profits in the run-up to the busy Christmas shopping period, with dishonest shoppers and employees stealing merchandise totalling 38% of losses incurred over the entire year.

The Torquay Herald Express reports that a former star of the TV reality show The Hotel has been jailed for two years for stealing £13,500 from the bar of a Devon holiday park.

Christian Taylor allowed ‘greed’ to get the better of him and then tried to ‘blag his way out’ of trouble after fiddling the till.

According to Your Local Guardian, a former security manager at upmarket department store Bentalls in Kingston made £50,000 by selling designer goods stolen from the shop.

Daniel Clarke used eBay to run a business called PartTimeTrader that specialised in selling handbags, perfumes and clothing.

The Swindon Advertiser reports that the boss of a flagship Wickes store who stole thousands of pounds from work has been jailed for 18 months.

Eamonn Burns – a customer service manager – siphoned more than £70,000 from the tills by operating a false refund scam and falsified invoices in a bid to cover his tracks.

The Mirror reports that a gift shop manager stole more than £30,000 from penny press machines to fund his gambling addiction.

Jason Metcalfe spent six years siphoning off takings from the presses at a tourist attraction in Hull and also plundered another £58,000 from tills, faking refunds and pocketing the proceeds.

The Mirror reports that a delivery driver who stole nearly 700 parcels worth £36,000 and sold them to “unsuspecting customers” on eBay was regarded as a model employee by colleagues.

Lyndon Linton was employed as a driver for Hermes in 2007 and was considered by his colleagues as a “model courier” but would steal parcels allocated to other drivers, containing goods including vacuum cleaners, food processors, bath mats, cooking utensils, and a jar of plastic flowers.