Category Archives: Civil Recovery

BBC News carried an interesting story of one woman’s compulsion to shoplift – which has dominated her life over a 20-year period.

For Laura – not her real name – it all began at the age of seven, when a friend’s parent asked her to hide items in her pocket while out shopping.

Kent Online reports that more than £50,000 of goods were stolen from shops in Maidstone town centre over two years.

Between December 2013 and November 2015, items worth £55,299.39 were shoplifted from some of the town’s main shopping areas, with over a third taken from just one shopping mall.

Wales Online reports that a school cook stole nearly £6,000 of pupils’ dinner money to pay off her debts.

Joanne Helsby had debts of nearly £30,000 and “pocketed” the cash pupils paid for school meals instead of paying it into the bank account of her employer, catering company Chartwells.

Website Your Local Guardian reports that a man who stole more than £10,000 from Greggs has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Ivan Manojlovic pleaded guilty to stealing £10,550 while working at the Cobham Services branch of the pastry chain in September 2014.

A crooked postman stole computer and video games that he was supposed to deliver to addresses in Inverclyde and then sold them on eBay.

Suspicious bosses caught the thief after setting up a surveillance operation complete with ‘test packages’, a court was told.

According to Get Surrey, the daughter and granddaughter of ex-Coronation Street actor Johnny Briggs, who have previously been given Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBOs) for shoplifting, have been caught stealing again.

Emma Beach and her mother Karen Briggs admitted stealing perfume from Debenhams in Walton.