Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to AOL News, police are recording more shoplifting offences than at any other time in the past 13 years, official figures have revealed.

Police recorded 336,505 shoplifting offences in the year ending in March – a 3% rise compared with the previous year.

BBC News reports that a former bank employee has been jailed for two years after admitting dishonestly transferring £53,000 from the accounts of 14 elderly customers.

Natasha Bassi, from Southampton, moved the funds over eight months in 2014 while working as an advisor at a branch of Santander in Reading.

The Express reports that a shoplifter – previously banned from a BP petrol station store – has been jailed for 10 months for trying to steal a ready meal by stuffing it down his trousers.

Neil Taylor was apprehended by a check-out assistant who became suspicious when she saw his jogging bottoms were “bulging”.

The localgov website reports that an ex-council employee has been found guilty of defrauding Lancashire County Council out of £1m over a five year period.

Stephen Crewdson was in charge of approving supplier invoices and arranged for builders to bill the council for work that never existed.

A former soldier who stole tens of thousands of pounds worth of stock from work to sell on eBay has walked free from court as a court heard he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. ThisIsWiltshire.co.uk reports that Scott Spencer took high value watches, electrical items and other stock from the warehouse of the Cotswold Outdoor Centre, in Kemble

Major high street retailers in the UK should be bracing for impact as shoplifters are set to significantly erode their profits in the run-up to the busy Christmas shopping period, with dishonest shoppers and employees stealing merchandise totalling 38% of losses incurred over the entire year.