Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to the Somerset Live website, a prolific shoplifter went on a two-month thieving spree in Yeovil, “in order to survive”, a court was told.

Louise Lauchlan – jailed for 21 weeks – helped herself to hundreds of pounds worth of booze and fragrances from Asda and a Boots store from which she had already been banned.

The Manchester Evening News website reports that a finance director cost four employees their jobs after he stole £21,000 of company money to feed his secret heroin habit.

Richard Turner managed the finances at a plant machinery hire firm and was – ironically – tasked with improving security on payments to the company.

According to the South Wales Argus website, an hotel operations manager stole from his employer to get back at the company owner who was a “horrible person to work for”.

Paul Lago stole £2,000 in cash from bar and restaurant tills and covered his tracks by posting disputed transactions.

The Kent Online website reports that a crooked businessman controlled a £280,000 nationwide fraud from his prison cell.

A court has heard that Blake Paterson ran a scam to defraud Howdens Joinery – Britain’s largest kitchen supplier – using phones smuggled inside prison.

As reported in the Manchester Evening News, a company boss who had a salary of £75k raided his firm’s accounts to live the high life.

Christopher Beddall used £30k of company money to whisk his unsuspecting wife off to New York, treat her to expensive watches and get her a British bulldog.

According to the Crown Prosecution Service [CPS] website, a employee stole more than £70,000 from a Travelex currency exchange bureau.

Dubravko Kuftinec abused his position as a sales consultant and carried out numerous ‘ghost’ transactions against protocol when customers were not present.