Category Archives: Civil Recovery
Letting Agent Stole £16k Of Deposits
An employee of a Savills letting agency swindled her employer out of around £16,000, taking cash received as tenants’ deposits.
Julie Feilden, a lettings administrator, was made redundant from the Newmarket branch in 2015, but asked if she could take the books home to get them up-to-date.
read moreGreat Gran Stole Out Of Boredom
According to The Sun, a 79-year-old great grandmother began a five-year shoplifting spree – because she was bored.
June Humphreys has clocked up her 39th theft, after starting to steal in her seventies to get out of her home in Crewe, travelling on her free bus pass to swipe hundreds of pounds of goods.
read moreStore Manager Stole Stock To Sell Online
According to Wales Online, the deputy manager of a designer menswear store in Cardiff stole jackets worth more than £1,000 before selling them online.
Scott Jones was caught after the German manufacturer contacted the distributor, who then set up a trap on a Facebook page.
Shoplifter Stole ‘To Be Like Santa’
The Bristol Post reports that when a shoplifter was stopped by police in possession of almost £1,000-worth of goods, he told them he wanted to give out presents like Santa.
Simon Thyer was detained by officers as he wheeled a trolley from Marks and Spencer, loaded with gifts, clothes and food.
read moreTrio Stole Electricals In Foil-Lined Bags
As reported on the This Is Lancashire website, a trio of shoplifters who used foil-lined bags to steal more than £3,000 worth of electrical items and other goods from East Lancashire supermarkets have each been jailed for 20 months.
Police discovered an array of electrical goods in a Ford Focus being driven on the M6 toll road.
read moreEmployee ‘Drained Company Reserves’
BBC News reports that an accountant stole £315,000 from her employers and spent it on fur coats, designer clothes and handbags.
Julie Sexton-Blythe joined Reliable Stamping in June 2014 and created two accounts with names similar to established clients, allowing her to go undetected for more than a year.
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