Category Archives: Employee Fraud

According to the This Is Money website, Patisserie Valerie’s CFO has been charged with a multi-million pound fraud which resulted in the collapse of the chain.

Christopher Marsh – and his wife Louise – are accused of ‘inflating’ figures in the bakery chain’s annual accounts for three years, from October 2015.

The Metro website reports that a 69-year-old grandmother has been jailed for 18 months for stealing £163,000 from her employer over a 13-year period.

Patricia Bennett used the proceeds of her thieving to fund caravanning holidays and trips to Spain, as well as a pop-up pub in the back of her newly refurbished garden.

According to the Plymouth Live website, a multi-million pound refit of assault vessel HMS Bulwark was delayed by three days after £24,000 worth of red diesel was stolen.

Lee Mann was detained by Ministry of Defence Police following an inquiry into the suspected loss of red diesel from a generator at HMNB Devonport in 2021.

The Oxford Mail website reports that a music shop employee stole £27,000-worth of stock to sell on eBay after struggling with his finances.

Christopher Riton-Hayward began stealing from his employer within months of taking the job and spent half a year taking items from the stock room.

According to the Law Gazette website, a former legal cashier with a Yorkshire law firm has been barred, after helping herself to thousands from the office account.

Jenny Spink joined Pudsey Legal Services in March 2020 and subsequently made five transfers to her own bank account before leaving two years later.

According to the Swindon Advertiser website, a Post Office employee defrauded his employer out of nearly £200,000 by falsely registering stamp refunds.

A court heard how Shane Pearce also stole stamps worth a total of £30,210, over a four-year period.