Category Archives: Civil Recovery

As reported on Legal Futures, a cashier who took nearly £750,000 from a City law firm has been jailed for more than three years.

Juliette Holland, who was employed in the company’s finance department, ordered foreign currency using an in-house exchange service, which was part of her role.

According to News North Wales, a woman reversed her car at a security guard while trying to avoid being detained for shoplifting.

Jodie Underhill pleaded guilty at Chester Magistrates Court to one count of theft and one count of driving without due care and attention.

A story in the South Wales Evening Post gives details of a shop worker who stole more than £2,000 from his employer by carrying out bogus refunds for goods and pocketing the cash.

Toby Levy rang 110 transactions through the tills at the Rugby Heaven shop in Swansea, issuing refunds for sports goods that had never actually been sold.

The Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard reports that a woman who worked as personal assistant to the head of a law firm, has admitted stealing almost £1.3million from her employer – and gambling most of it away.

Portuguese born Sandra Rebeira bought a BMW, a speedboat and a house in Portugal with some of the stolen funds but gambled most of it on online betting sites.

The Liverpool Echo carries a story of a supermarket worker who stole £10,000 worth of ink cartridges and sold them on eBay.

James Worrall also helped himself to Blu-Ray discs over the four years he worked at an ASDA store in Bootle.

One of the UK’s most prolific thieves has been jailed after bragging that he makes a £1,000-a-weekshoplifting.

Jamie Forbes has racked up more than 300 convictions and, after being stopped by a security guard at an ASDA, he boasted: “I can get a grand a week out of you lot.”