Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to Kent Online, an officer who stole police equipment was collared when detectives took to eBay to find the missing items.

PC Paul Withrington had been stealing for two years and stolen gear was found in his police van and even his lunch box, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

As reported on The Voice website, a building society customer service manager has been jailed for fraudulently transferring money from customers’ accounts.

Sandra Stewart, a Nationwide employee, admitted to police that she had stolen over £27,000 from customer accounts in the 1990s.

According to AOL News, police are recording more shoplifting offences than at any other time in the past 13 years, official figures have revealed.

Police recorded 336,505 shoplifting offences in the year ending in March – a 3% rise compared with the previous year.

BBC News reports that a former bank employee has been jailed for two years after admitting dishonestly transferring £53,000 from the accounts of 14 elderly customers.

Natasha Bassi, from Southampton, moved the funds over eight months in 2014 while working as an advisor at a branch of Santander in Reading.

The Express reports that a shoplifter – previously banned from a BP petrol station store – has been jailed for 10 months for trying to steal a ready meal by stuffing it down his trousers.

Neil Taylor was apprehended by a check-out assistant who became suspicious when she saw his jogging bottoms were “bulging”.

The localgov website reports that an ex-council employee has been found guilty of defrauding Lancashire County Council out of £1m over a five year period.

Stephen Crewdson was in charge of approving supplier invoices and arranged for builders to bill the council for work that never existed.