Category Archives: Employee Fraud

According to the Droitwich Advertiser, a former pub manager betrayed the trust of his employer by pocketing the wages of ‘ghost employees’, after an investigation into common assault led to the discovery.

Christopher May admitted the £33,000 fraud while managing the Honey Bee pub in Doverdale, claiming wages on behalf staff who had at some time worked at the pub but no longer did.

As reported in the Braintree & Witham Times, a man has been sentenced to a year in jail after stealing more than £86,000 from a former employer.

Daren Howarth admitted theft whilst working as a booking agent in the office of Excellent Connections Limited, a taxi company in Braintree.

Some cheering news on the This Is Money website, as it reports that reducing store thefts helped the UK arm of Whole Foods Market make a profit for its second consecutive year.

The upmarket American health food supermarket said its profit increased in relation to turnover, ‘primarily reflecting improved shrink’

The Hull Daily Mail reports that trusted warehouse manager stole leather goods worth almost £25,000 from his employer before giving them to a woman to sell on eBay.

Many of Mark Johnson’s stolen goods were handed to Helen Parsons, who then used her children’s eBay accounts to sell them online.

The Ipswich Star carries the story of a travel shop worker who stole money from her employer to pay the rent on the house she shared.

A court heard that the Co-op estimates Lucy Read – a travel consultant for the company – stole around £2,000.

Wales Online reports that a ‘trusted and respected’ employee stole more than £330,000 from a Pontypridd construction firm to feed her online gambling habit.

Beverley Pearce – jailed for 32 months – worked at Brecongate Building Solutions for 16 years as an account manager and paid herself up to five times a month from the company accounts, blowing the money on online gambling.