Category Archives: Civil Recovery

Swindon became the latest target for a travelling Romanian shoplifter who stole more than £700 of goods from Waitrose.

Alexandru Ciurez of Woodford Green, Essex – and a fellow Romanian national – both pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing items on October 25, to the value of £735.10.

According to Your Local Guardian, a former security manager at upmarket department store Bentalls in Kingston made £50,000 by selling designer goods stolen from the shop.

Daniel Clarke used eBay to run a business called PartTimeTrader that specialised in selling handbags, perfumes and clothing.

The Swindon Advertiser reports that the boss of a flagship Wickes store who stole thousands of pounds from work has been jailed for 18 months.

Eamonn Burns – a customer service manager – siphoned more than £70,000 from the tills by operating a false refund scam and falsified invoices in a bid to cover his tracks.

The Mirror reports that a gift shop manager stole more than £30,000 from penny press machines to fund his gambling addiction.

Jason Metcalfe spent six years siphoning off takings from the presses at a tourist attraction in Hull and also plundered another £58,000 from tills, faking refunds and pocketing the proceeds.

The Mirror reports that a delivery driver who stole nearly 700 parcels worth £36,000 and sold them to “unsuspecting customers” on eBay was regarded as a model employee by colleagues.

Lyndon Linton was employed as a driver for Hermes in 2007 and was considered by his colleagues as a “model courier” but would steal parcels allocated to other drivers, containing goods including vacuum cleaners, food processors, bath mats, cooking utensils, and a jar of plastic flowers.

As reported in the East Anglian Daily Times, a woman who siphoned off more than £47,000 from a security firm she worked at over a period of three years has been jailed.

Allison Thorogood, a payroll manager, had directly transferred around £17,000 to her own bank account and spent c.£30k on the company credit card on personal expenses, as well as withdrawing cash using the card.