Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Sun reports that a secretary who swindled £130,000 from her employers was spared prison after blaming PMT.

Over two years Caroline Geoghegan started with stealing petty cash before going on to make out cheques to herself and was only rumbled when a colleague queried a payment whilst she was on holiday.

As reported in The Sun, a 19-year-old thief escaped jail – despite stealing £1,000 worth of goods from an Apple store – and said it ‘was never her plan to shoplift’.

Nafisa Akhtar, 19, also swiped £760 of goods from a Harvey Nichols store – decking herself out in Gucci accessories for her court appearance.

According to the Daily Post, an assistant manager at a North Wales café stole £62,000 from her employers to lavish gifts on her children.

Julie Coleclough also used some of the money she swindled out of the Abakhan Fabrics café to pay off debts, taking up to £3,000 a month.

As reported in the Helensburgh Advertiser, a trainee accountant stole more than £38,000 from her employers in Glasgow, despite having a previous conviction for a similar offence.

Kirstie Donovan made a number of payments totalling £38,055 from the company, Fidelite Credit Management, into her own account.

BBC News reports that retailers are warning that a sharp rise in shoplifting is being fuelled partly by police forces not investigating the theft of items worth less than £200.

Persistent offenders are apparently exploiting a change in the law that allows for more minor cases to be dealt with by post.

The Bristol Post reports that a woman took an 11-year-old child with her on a shoplifting trip.

CCTV cameras picked up the girl running out of a JD Sports branch with clothes worth £416, and police later located the youngster with Charlotte Cassidy by a BMW car, containing the stolen goods.