Category Archives: Civil Recovery

Kim Farry, branded Britain’s most shameless shoplifter, has reportedly threatened to go back to her criminal ways just months after she offered to help stores stop theft, according to The Mirror.

The grandmother, 55, has admitted she isn’t content with her £15,000 yearly benefit money and warned if she doesn’t get a job soon she’ll go back to shoplifting.

The Telegraph reports that a shoplifter has been prosecuted for stealing £60 of washing-up goods – after she was caught fleeing a Savers store on Google Street View.

Whilst her face had been blurred out by Google, Cleveland Police identified Tammy McIvor from her distinctive white outfit, which she was wearing when she was arrested.

The Lancashire Evening Post reports that an ex-professional footballer went on a £5,000 shoplifting spree to pay off his partner’s cocaine debt.

Kevin Magee – a team-mate of David Beckham in the ’90s – was jailed for six months after committing another five thefts from supermarkets on three separate dates.

As reported in The Herts Advertiser, new statistics revealed by Hertforshire Police show that shoplifting is 67% up in comparison to the previous year.

Since April 1 2016 there have been 368 instances of shoplifting – with meat, alcohol and clothes making up most of the items stolen in the district.

According to the Eastern Daily Press, a Halfords employee stole over £3,500-worth of electronics in less than a month to help finance family debts.

Ryan Muir stole items- including sat navs – whilst working at Halfords in Thetford and sold them on eBay, between December 20, 2015 and January 5, 2016.

An interesting article appears on the Business Matters website where business experts and a 2014 global fraud study from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, found that the typical business suffers a 5 per cent loss of profits every year due to corporate fraud.

The article gives an expert’s opinion on internal business fraud, along with advice on what you can do to prevent it in your company.