Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Courier reports that an elderly crook admitted being responsible for shoplifting offences over several months along with his 50-year-old daughter.
According to a police source, their appearance was the ‘perfect cover’ as they ‘looked like they were about to set off on a Saga holiday.’

A warehouse worker stole returned kitchen goods from his employer then sold them on eBay.

Mark Livesey worked in the warehouse area where returned stock and rejected fixtures and fittings were kept. He took the goods, reconditioned them and they were sold via his ex-girlfriend’s eBay account.

Children as young as 10 have been arrested for shoplifting in Glasgow stores, according to the Evening Times.

Almost 500 youngsters have been nabbed by city cops in the past year. Of those, 303 were aged between 11 and 15 and, most shockingly, six schoolchildren – aged just 10-years-old – were linked to the crimes.

Britain’s most prolific shoplifter has been jailed after being caught carrying out his 523rd offence – stealing £111 worth of groceries from Iceland.

Over 45 years of offending, Hankinson targeted high street shops and had even taken his unsuspecting wife on a shoplifting jaunt during a sightseeing coach trip.

A logistics company owner who stole Jaguar parts and sold them on eBay has been jailed for 12 months.

Peter Barker collected five vehicles which had been imported from the USA and took them home where he removed parts including carburettors, manifolds, lights and dashboard panels.

The Darlington & Stockton Times gives details of a meat thief who been jailed for a crime spree across North Yorkshire.

By the time Vincent McCormick was finally caught he had committed 18 raids in which he stole items worth several hundred pounds.