Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to the Northwich & Winsford Guardian website, a holiday park manager defrauded her company out of nearly £20,000 to pay IVF treatment debts.

Joanne Pirie had been taking customers’ money and transferring it to her personal bank account, where she kept the funds.

According to the News & Star website, the manager of a plumbing and heating firm stole more than £84,000 from the business over two-and-a-half years.

Dale Hooper took cash for products but didn’t put the sales through the company’s till system, or took cash for items never supplied.

According to the BBC News website, a woman who stole almost £120,000 from a Sunderland school has been ordered to pay some of the money back.

Joanne Anderson was responsible for managing the financial budget of the school, and forged the signatures of senior staff on at least 409 cheques.

According to the Hull Live website, a payroll assistant stole nearly £85,000 after she “hijacked” her employer’s bank payments system and made more than 200 bogus payments to herself.

Angela Hunter exploited the system for nearly three years, after a change was implemented during lockdown.

The BBC News website reports that a small chain of garden centres have been targeted by an “organised crime” gang of shoplifters.

Bosses at Tates of Sussex said it had to spend thousands of pounds hiring a security team following a big rise in the number of thefts committed.

The Sun website reports that an RAF chief based at the Pentagon allegedly fiddled his expenses and stashed thousands in a secret bank account.

Wing Commander Alex Drysdale claimed overseas rent allowance of £2,408 a month for a property he already owned.