Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Hartlepool Mail reports that a fraudster who cheated his employer out of £40,000 to fund his drug addiction has been jailed.

John Simpson worked with Gary Dangerfield – MD of a Birmingham-based compressor firm which supplied Brooktherm – who raised inflated, duplicated or false invoices for Simpson to authorise.

Two soldiers and an accomplice have been sentenced for ‘stealing to order’ more than £45,000 of state-of-the-art equipment from the SAS.
Sergeants Craig Davenport and Stephen Suffield took items from MoD stores, which they passed on to Andrew Stevens, who sold them through contacts made on eBay.

The Belfast Telegraph reports that a mother accused of shoplifting on a near daily basis received up to $100,000 (£83k) selling the goods on eBay.

Deirdre McKeown travelled around N. Ireland stealing toys, beauty products and other items which she then immediately advertised on the auction website.

According to Glasgow’s Evening Times website, city centre police will be armed with body-cams in a bid to deter and catch festive shoplifters during one of Glasgow’s busiest shopping periods.
Images of shoplifters will be shared with retailers’ loss prevention officers, alerting them to potential criminal activity.

The Eastern Daily Press reports on the case of a trusted assistant manager of a Norwich paint centre who stole more than £15,000 from his employer to feed his online gambling addiction.
Simon Brock, who worked at the Dulux Decorator Centre, pocketed money from false refunds in 69 transactions and transferred the cash straight into his own personal bank account.

A story on Lincolnshire Live gives details of a gambler who put thousands of pounds of his employer’s money put into girlfriend’s bank account, to feed his £300-a-month gambling habit.
On completion of a contract for his employer – HCG Heating Construction Ltd – he gave the customer the bank details of his partner for payment.