Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Hull Daily Mail website reports that a teenage Argos employee used fraudulent refunds and price reductions to scam her employer out of thousands of pounds.

Ashleigh Handley transferred a £5,000 “refund” into her own bank account and reduced Apple products to pennies through the tills.

As reported on the North Somerset Times website, Benjamin Thornton – a former RBS manager – was given an 40-month jail term for stealing £190,000 over a three-and-a-half year period.

Thornton took cash from the bank and hid the shortfall by moving money around within RBS so his deceit remained hidden.

The Birmingham Live website reports that a serial shoplifter who was banned from every Asda in the country has struck at a branch of the supermarket in Coventry.

Serena Frances Lillah Downs – now jailed for 20 weeks – was banned from the store nationwide, after a £1,000 thieving spree early in 2019.

The Bolton News website reports that a nursery manager stole £58,000 from her employer and used some of the money to pay for her son’s wedding.

A court heard that Hazel Leece carried out numerous thefts over five years – a fraudulent £78 spend at M&S led to many further discrepancies being uncovered.

According to the Chronicle Live website, a brazen thief hired a taxi to take him shoplifting as part of a thieving spree which has now seen him banned from the Silverlink Shopping Park in Tyneside.

Cocksure crook Dean Robinson covered security tags in tin foil to evade detection, but was eventually caught by detectives who linked him to a string of store thefts.

According to Yahoo! News, a former doctor’s practice manager has been jailed after defrauding the surgery she worked for of almost £600,000.

Carolyn Lightwing transferred £596,000 into personal bank accounts she had set up while falsely claiming to be a supplier to the surgery.