Category Archives: Civil Recovery

As reported in the Oxford Mail, a hotel night manager stole nearly £17,000 of his employer’s money in an attempt to woo a man he wanted to be his lover.

Deanardo Blacklaws worked at the Oxford Belfry Hotel in Milton Common for two months in 2016 and, within days of starting the role, began an elaborate scheme to charm a man he was ‘besotted’ with.

As reported in The Mail, a gang of three men distracted staff at a Carphone Warehouse store, removing security devices fitted to Apple iPhones and swapped them with dummy phones.

Carlisle Crown Court was told that the gang then repeated the crime at a Vodafone store in the same shopping centre on the same day.

According to HR News, Welsh workers admitted they were the most likely in Britain to tell lies at a job interview.

The specially-commissioned research saw 21.7% of Welsh workers admitting they deliberately fibbed during an interview, closely followed by the Scots with 20.8%.

Lincolnshire Live reports that a woman could not remember stealing four trolleyloads full of shopping.

Magistrates decided to clear Tammy Ann Chapman of all four charges because she was on medication and claimed she could not remember any of the thefts from the Tesco Extra and Asda supermarkets.

The East Anglian Daily Times carries a story of four Asda checkout operators who stole hundreds of items in a “skim-scanning” fiddle.

Rachel Hassall, Angelina Mosley, Sally-Anne Sadler and Tracey Tate helped each other to avoid paying for items by “elevating” them over the scanning devices at checkouts.

According to the Plymouth Herald, a Royal Marine warrant officer stole corps equipment worth almost £67,000 and sold them on eBay, a court was told.

Michael Bath is accused of stealing military property – including military boots and badges – from the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone, in East Devon.