Category Archives: Employee Fraud

According to the Warrington Guardian website, a couple who defrauded a soft furnishing company they were working for out of £70,000 have been ordered to repay around £40,000.

Carl Hestford and Fiona Kerr stole the money by siphoning company cash to a false PayPal account, but initially denied the fraud.

The East Anglian Daily Times website reports that a former restaurant manager who stole £1,200 via the business’s card machine has been ordered to pay back the money.

Gheorghe Feraru had access to the supervisor’s code, was able to process refunds unchecked and made ten refunds to his own account.

As reported on the Oldham Times website, a grandmother with no criminal convictions stole £24,000 worth of mobile phones from her work at Yodel in Oldham.

Julie Birchenough worked for the delivery company for ten years and did not have to go through a scanner before and after shifts, unlike her colleagues.

The Harborough Mail website reports that a former senior employee at Kibworth Medical Centre has been jailed for 12 months after stealing over £184,000.

Kirsty Whawell defrauded the practice over a six-year period between 2013 and 2019, when she was practice manager.

The BBC News website reports that a man stole more than £48,000 from his parents, girlfriends, friends and employer “without any prejudice or remorse”.

Wayne Skinner – jailed for over five years – used the money to fund “a life way beyond his means”, buying luxury holidays, nights out and Ed Sheeran gig tickets.

As reported on the News Shopper website, a former bank employee who stole more than £74,000 from members of her own family has been jailed for 28 months.

Hien Ly used her position to take large sums of money off the victims and state she was putting it into “investments” and to purchase properties.