Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The BBC News website reports that convenience stores’ losses from shoplifting tripled last year to hit a record high for the industry.

The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) came up with total losses of £131m, based on estimates from 7,123 shops in England, Scotland and Wales.

Wales Online reports that a ‘trusted and respected’ employee stole more than £330,000 from a Pontypridd construction firm to feed her online gambling habit.

Beverley Pearce – jailed for 32 months – worked at Brecongate Building Solutions for 16 years as an account manager and paid herself up to five times a month from the company accounts, blowing the money on online gambling.

As reported in the Manchester Evening News, a John Lewis worker stole thousands of pounds of stock, hoarded stolen items at his parents’ and partner’s houses, before flogging the haul through a bogus eBay account.

Ashley Graham Holland had worked at the Cheadle Royal store for 15 years and confessed to stealing from the store from May 2014 to April 2016.

The Mirror reports that a teenage shoplifter was caught hiding goods under a child’s pram – by pretending she had a baby, which was actually a cuddly toy and a bra.

Saffron Curtiss-McGinty used the bizarre scam at B&M Bargains in Solihull to steal sweets, candles and an electric toothbrush.

As reported in the Ipswich Star, a barrister has questioned security levels at John Lewis after a drug-addicted shoplifter was able to walk out of a store five times in six weeks with high-value items.

Dean Saunders stole televisions, expensive coffee machines and speakers until he was finally arrested.

According to the Leamington Observer, a ‘staggeringly dishonest’ Jaguar Land Rover employee stole car parts worth up to £2 million.

Simon Wensley used his own automotive business as a cover to sell the stolen parts and has now been ordered to pay more than £260,000 in compensation.