Category Archives: Civil Recovery

A sea cadets volunteer in Northumberland stole a number of kayaks, sails, wetsuits and musical instruments from the organisation and sold them on eBay.

Paul Erskine had got into financial difficulties, and went to steal items worth over £3,000 from the cadets and a neighbouring sports club, which he listed on the online auction site to raise money.

The Mirror reported that three Romanian shoplifters caught with a boot load of baby formula milk powder have been spared jail time.

An off-duty police officer spotted the trio sneakingmilk out of a Co-Op in Woodbridge, took photographs of their car and then alerted his colleagues.

As reported on Mail Online, there is growing trend where brazen shoplifters post their ill-gotten hauls on social media platform, Tumblr.

Growing communities of mainly young women are posting photos – and accompanying hashtags, such as #shoplifting – to advocate the so-called ‘lift life’.

The Sun ran a story with an embedded video that shows how a shoplifter had stashed a phenomenal number of stolen items about her person.

When the woman was asked to empty her pockets of her booty, she started by putting a couple of small items in the trolley then went on and on and on.

The Bury Free Press reports that a Halfords employee stole more than £2,300 from his employer by copying customer receipts and paying refunds into his own bank account.

Liam Crook of Bury St Edmunds, pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position at Bury Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

The Mansfield and Ashfield Chad reports that a thief was caught shoplifting from the same branch of Asda twice within four days.

A court heard that on March 15, Costin Valentin Ispir loaded his trolley with goods, worth £318, and walked out without paying. He and a partner did the same thing on March 19.