Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to The Telegraph, a shop assistant who had a job at Russell & Bromley’s flagship store in London’s Oxford Street, stole designer shoes before selling them on ebay.

She walked out with £7,363 of goods before staff spotted the large amount of stock on an ebay account and launched an investigation.

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has recently reported that retail crime in the UK reached its highest level for ten years in 2014.

Shoplifting, cybercrime and fraud cost retailers more than £600m, in spite of businesses spending an average of £2m each on crime and loss prevention measures.

The Daily Mail reports that a Portsmouth man who worked in an Estee Lauder laboratory stole up to 50 items a day during his lunch breaks to supply a couple who were selling stolen make-up and perfumes on ebay in a scam that made them £350,000 in just one year.

A prolific shoplifter has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to the theft of more than £800 of items – his latest in a string of over 175 offences.

Police said: “Howard Lawrence has a horrendous history of offending, amounting to almost 80 convictions taking in 175 offences nationwide.”

The Western Daily Press reports that a ‘brainless’ shoplifter left behind his address and identity records after stealing a coat from TK Maxx.

Stephen Priddis went into the store, hung his jacket up and took another one. In one of his pockets was a police national computer memo with his details.

A thieving hospital worker ran a mail order business selling stolen NHS medical equipment – and used the hospital post system to despatch the goods to buyers.

Paul Lloyd, 30, set up a company called “Gloves For You” and sold hundreds of boxes of supplies and even his own NHS uniform.