Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to the Bracknell News website, a charity treasurer stole more than £800,000 in donations by taking raffle tickets from a lavish gala dinner attended by international superstars.

Amanda Bishop – jailed for five years – kept money intended to help GroceryAid, having volunteered with the Sandhurst-based charity for nearly a quarter of a century.

According to The Independent website, an accountant’s obsession with a webcam model led him to steal almost £250,000 from his football club employer.

Andrew Barnbrook secretly transferred the money from AFC Fylde to his personal bank account for up to two and a half years before he was finally caught.

The Manchester Evening News website reports that the British justice system has been described as an ‘absolute joke’ by a business owner who was scammed by an employee for £5,000, just nine months after she was spared jail for another £22,500 fraud.

According to the Shropshire Star website, a financial controller stole almost half a million pounds from the firm by paying himself a double salary and ‘bonuses’ – for six years.

Johnathan Darren Lucas admitting defrauding his employer, SP Services UK Ltd, of £443,887, between 2011 and 2017.

According to The Sun, a brazen thief stole £46,000 from her boss to take her son on holidays – whilst being investigated about the theft of £122,000 from her previous job.

Accounts assistant Natalie Johnston bought her son holidays to Rome, Ireland and the Lake District.

According to the Daily Record website, a fraudster stole almost £40,000, which she blew on Louis Vuitton bags, Rolex watches and Gucci shoes.

Hasnija Osmanagic siphoned cash from her employer’s business into her own personal account over a 17-month period.