Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The BBC News website reports that a former Warner Bros Studio employee stole £36,935 worth of Harry Potter merchandise to order from the attraction in Leavesden, Herts.

Adam Hill sold the items on eBay, initially using a local post office but then used a franking machine to send them from the post room at work.

The Eastern Daily Press website reports that two shoplifters stole footwear, clothing and perfume worth more than £1,500 in under 60 minutes.

A court was told that Seherezada Calin and Amalia Vaduva took items worth £705.15 from TK Maxx and goods worth £921 from JD Sports.

The Cambridgeshire Live website reports that a university professor has been suspended after dishonestly claiming two salaries from two universities.

A tribunal heard that Professor Akhilesh Reddy, a medical doctor, was paid by both Cambridge University and University College London (UCL).

As reported on the Evening Express website, a checkout worker stole £1,500 from her employer and was only found out when bosses ordered an audit.

Jessica McKay – employed by Morrisons – was seen on CCTV footage processing transactions when there no customers present.

According to The Irish Sun website, the general manager of a Dublin cinema stole over €200,000 from his employer.

John Connolly told police that he thought he could take the money and put it back, whilst a court heard that at one stage he was one number away from winning €250,000 on the Lotto.

According to the News & Star website, a hotel manager stole more than £107,000 from his employer, through theft and falsifying cash sheets.

Stewart McIntosh, committed the thefts and false accounting while working as a manger at The Graham Arms Hotel, and having day-to-day responsibility for the daily takings.