Category Archives: Civil Recovery

Bradford’s Telegraph & Argus reports that a trusted employee and friend stole £20,000 from his boss by using company materials to carry out work for himself.

Matthew Long, a married father-of-five and a “pillar of respectability”, worked as contracts manager for Kwik Klik Hoardings, which provided shop front hoardings for large shopping centres.

As reported in The Sun, a woman was caught stealing from supermarkets after staff recognised her from the Channel 5 show, Benefits By The Sea.

Sarah Jammeh took £30 of Sainsbury’s meat and £70 of chicken from a Tesco in Clacton, Essex.

According to the Sheffield Star website, a Sheffield grandmother stole more than £8,000 from the Co-op convenience store she worked at for around eight years.

Patricia Budd – a trusted and respected employee – started stealing from the company in 2014, before being caught in November 2016.

Another six-figure theft as the Surrey Comet reports that a Twickenham woman who defrauded her employer out of more than £500,000 has been jailed.

Gwenda Hussey had various finance roles at an events management company since 2008 but was dismissed from the company for gross misconduct in 2015.

Lincolnshire Live reports that an electrical wholesale company worker stole £42,000 worth of stock to fund his gambling addiction.

Gavin Phillips, an inventory controller, set up an eBay account to sell the stock he had stolen and falsified documentation to cover up what he was doing.

A story of staggering proportions as the South Wales Guardian reports that a ‘trusted’ secretary stole almost £1 million from her employer over a four-year period.

Susan Jones – jailed for 45 months – stole £955,368 from CK Supermarkets’ accounts to help out her family’s farm after it ran into financial difficulties.