Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to the Chester Standard, a finance manager has been jailed for stealing more than £320,000 from her employer.

Sian Mclear-Dyer transferred the cash into her own bank accounts over a period of two and a half years while working for Total Conveyancing Services in Ellesmere Port.

Stoke-On-Trent Live reports that a ‘desperate’ shoplifter stole bottles of alcohol from Sainsbury’s because he could not pay his rent after his housing benefit was stopped.

Ian Lincoln – who has 70 previous convictions for theft and similar offences – was desperate not to lose his accommodation so he took the items to sell on.

The Greenock Telegraph reports that a debt-ridden shopworker stole £1,500 worth of scratchcards – but didn’t win anthing.

Andrew Lochrie was working at the Co-Op when he helped himself to rolls of the National Lottery instants games hoping to be able to clear his mounting arrears.

According to the Mirror website, police are hunting for a shoplifter bearing an uncanny resemblance to Prince Andrew, who allegedly stole an expensive pram from Mothercare.

This latest ‘looki-likey’ search follows a shoplifting incident in which a dead-ringer for Ross from the TV show Friends was caught stealing a crate of beer.

The BBC News website reports that incidents of shoplifting in UK supermarkets have risen by nearly 8% between 2014 and 2017.

Shoppers and store owners are bearing the cost of the increase, whilst austerity cutbacks mean that there are ‘not enough police officers to deal with’ the rises.

According to the Wales Online website, a lettings manager pocketed more than £300,000 from his hardworking boss and used it to fund a gambling addiction, expensive holidays and fine dining.

Robert Parker was filmed kissing wads of cash whilst stealing them from successful businesswoman Nina Chivers.