Category Archives: Civil Recovery

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.

As reported by Cumbria Crack, a man has been sentenced for his part in the theft of Pirelli tyres valued at £102,000.

Mark Claxton was in dire financial straits when he stole high value tyres while working at a distribution depot next to Pirelli’s Carlisle site.

As reported in the Gloucester Citizen, a bodybuilding ‘addict’ has been banned from every Gloucester shop after terrorising traders for two years.

James Smith has 40 convictions for stealing items including protein powder and meat to feed his compulsion to work out every day.