Category Archives: Civil Recovery

Detectives in South London have appealed for help in identifying a thief riding a hoverboard in a Co-Op store, according to The Guardian.

The man entered the store in Mitcham and travelled round the aisles before casually leaving with a crate of Lucozade in his arms.

A woman has been jailed after she “systematically” stole £10,000 worth of stock from a Cambridge clothes shop and then sold it on eBay.

Madeline Stock has been locked up for four months after she sold off stock from clothing store Warehouse over a period of two years.

A trader plagued by thieves is launching an online petition – to have the word ‘shoplifting’ banned, according to Cambridge News. Neil Mackay, who has had electrical equipment and other stock stolen from his shop, believes the crime is not taken seriously enough.

He is calling on organisations and individuals to stop using the word ‘shoplifting’, and subsititute ‘shop theft’ instead.

David Wilson, a deputy manager at Toys “R” Us in York started stealing from the chain in 2008 – a year after being promoted into a managerial role – according to the York Press.

The company used software to trace the stolen stock before evidence was handed to loss prevention officers who matched the goods with Wilson’s eBay and PayPal account.

According to the Mirror, a primary school teacher who was being hunted by Asda for her prolific shoplifting has been caught after appearing on TV’s Come Dine With Me.

Supermarket staff at her local Asda branch spotted Sophie Hunter-Brown in a re-run of the popular Channel 4 show.

Shocking news from the Retail Times, as it reveals that UK retailers lost more than £800 million to shoplifting in 2014.

Small and high resale value items, were again among the most stolen, with fashion accessories, power tools, mobile device accessories, wine and spirits, and razor blades top of shoplifters’ ‘wishlists’.