Category Archives: Employee Fraud

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.

According to the Hull Daily Mail website, a removals company deputy manager cynically betrayed the trust of his boss by stealing nearly £9k from him whilst he was away on holiday.

When he was finally tracked down in Torquay, Steven Fowler then tried to blame the boss’s son for the missing money.

The Hull Daily Mail website reports that an assistant accountant stole more than £80k from her employers, to pay for a lavish lifestyle, including an Audi A7 and holidays to Florida, Lapland, and New York.

Katie Nelson used blank cheques already signed by bosses to pay cash to herself.

As reported on The Cumberland News wesbite, a pub worker with a secret cocaine addiction stole from his employer in a desperate bid to settle his drugs debt.

During a four-day period of sick leave, Ryan Wightman repeatedly sneaked back into the office so that he could steal cash from the safe.