Category Archives: Civil Recovery

CCTV footage of unknown criminals targeting Portsmouth will be shared across Hampshire to help identify prolific offenders.

Crime prevention agencies can now access around 2,500 images of criminals which could help put names to faces of thieves.

The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports that a wages clerk defrauded a Huddersfield-based plastics firm.

A court heard that Vicky Knott stole up to £120,000 from the business over three years, despite being employed to safeguard the firm’s financial interests.

BBC News reports that a convicted fraudster has admitted lying to get a job at an energy firm he then defrauded of more than £40,000.

James Cox made up references and a CV to land the £65,000 finance director role at Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC).

According to Chad, a man went on a shoplifting spree in Mansfield after his girlfriend dumped him.

Mihai Talian stole clothes from Sport Direct and River Island worth £142 after a telephone call with his girlfriend in Romania ended with her informing him that she had formed a new relationship.

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.