Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Nottinghamshire Live website reports that a prolific shoplifter who stole luxury handbags to fund a lavish lifestyle is to have £37,000 of her personal possessions sold online.

Police will be selling off Sophie Ingram’s designer shoes, clothing and other valuables on eBay, after a judge ordered her to hand over the goods – or face an extra year in prison.

According to the Chester Standard website, two men and a woman stole £7,500 worth of booze from supermarkets across Chester and Northwich.

Elena Marin, Florin Marin and Marian Mitica – all jailed for nine months – stole the alcohol during a shoplifting spree in branches of Waitrose and Tesco.

According to the Lancashire Telegraph website, a Romanian shoplifter stole 17 boxes of Gaviscon and 34 boxes of Fixodent to send to his parents, because the products were expensive in his home country.

Adrian Mihai was in Blackburn looking for work but took the opportunity to steal from Morrisons.

According to the Leicestershire Live website, a wife has claimed she had no idea that her husband stole nearly £1.5 million from two employers.

Sofina Sarwar’s husband, Haroon Cassim, used bogus invoices from fake businesses to transfer hundreds of thousands of pounds into two of her accounts.

The Northern Echo website reports that an employee of a motorcycle supplier who was asked to deliver three motocross bikes – worth £3,000 each – failed to do so, selling them instead, to pay off a drug debt.

Kyle Goulding was employed and trusted by Callum Wood, despite having a previous criminal history for theft.

According to the Retail Gazette website, recent research has shown that the retail sector is plagued with 1,000 shoplifting incidents per day, and more than half of them reportedly go unpunished.

Police data shows that UK retailers recorded 359,156 incidents of shoplifting in 2019, and 17 of 45 police forces around the UK saw increases in the number of incidents, with Sussex being the worst hit.