Category Archives: Employee Fraud

According to the Hull Live website, an employee stole £100,000 from her employer over a five-year period, to fund a lavish ‘Instagram’ lifestyle.

Laura Howarth officially earned just over £900 a month as a finance assistant but stole every week, taking her fraudulent ‘salary’ up to an eye-watering £6,000 a month.

The Chronicle Live website reports that an employee was caught selling at least £16,000-worth of stolen works tools on eBay.

Leslie Pattinson stole expensive equipment over a two-week period and uploaded details to the online auction site, before a colleague spotted them for sale.

The Kent Online website reports that a flip flop shop manager who was ‘desperate to leave his job’ stole £12,000 before vanishing.

Jonathan Kirby repeatedly targeted the Havaianas store for two months, then took leave, claiming he had contracted the coronavirus.

The Staffordshire Live website reports that a thief who stole tens of thousands of pounds worth of copper cabling and transformers has avoided going to jail due to a ‘woeful’ delay in his prosecution.

Mark Robinson stole 20 transformers worth £17,798 plus 680kg of high voltage copper cable worth £3,060.

The Birmingham Mail website reports that a woman stole in excess of a million pounds over nearly ten years to fund her extreme gambling addiction.

Karen Brailsford stole the money by falsifying invoices, and, at its peak, her thieving amassed £300,000 from her place of work in just one year.

As reported on the Birmingham Mail website, a accountant who lost her own money on a gambling site then went on to steal £24,000 from her work.

Emma King took advantage of working from home during the COVID pandemic to steal thousands from her employer, a boat trip and party hire company.