Category Archives: Civil Recovery

As reported in The Sun, a recent study found that shoplifting cost the UK’s economy £6.3billion last year, equating to £270 for each household.

The study saw that shop theft had rocketed due to a rising number of criminals addicted to narcotics and psychoactive substances such as spice.

Former employees of a plastic company in Blackburn stole £184,000 in cash over a five-year period.

Beryl Ann Shore and Kathryn Jones were employed by MGS Technical Plastics and prosecution evidence indicated that they had stolen closer to £123,000, but Shore’s own documents indicated they had stolen more.

The This Is Lancashire website reports that a persistent shoplifter has been banned from every shop in Accrington town centre.
John Crabtree has been convicted of 16 offences of shoplifting already this year, and local police hit out at the impact shoplifters like Crabtree have on the area.

iNews reports that shoplifting has hit a five-year high in Scotland as people resort to stealing food from supermarkets, according to police statistics.

Figures published by Police Scotland show that shoplifting has increased by almost 10 per cent in the past year, with 31,321 crimes recorded.

According to the BBC News website, the former boss of a branch of Age Concern defrauded the charity out of more than £700,000.

John Briers who was chief executive of its South Tyneside office used fake invoices and banked unauthorised bonus payments over an eight-year period.

A Guardian article explores the murky exploits of first-time and seasoned shoplifters, as items stolen at self-service tills increased to more than £3bn in 2017.
Some scams have names – “the banana trick”, “the switcheroo” and “sweethearting”, although there are so many techniques in practice that not all of them do.