Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to an investigation published on The Sun website, some TikTok accounts are dedicated specifically to the theft of high value cosmetics.

Dubbed ‘NikTok’, one user account’s video scored a British supermarket chain 10/10 for shoplifting opportunities, claiming its make-up aisle “doesn’t even have cameras”.

According to the This Is Money website, Patisserie Valerie’s CFO has been charged with a multi-million pound fraud which resulted in the collapse of the chain.

Christopher Marsh – and his wife Louise – are accused of ‘inflating’ figures in the bakery chain’s annual accounts for three years, from October 2015.

The Sun website reports that ministers are considering removing serial shoplifters’ right to a jury trial under a possible crackdown to clear the backlog in courts.

Prolific offenders should be dealt with swiftly by magistrates handing out sentences, freeing the crown courts to hear more important cases.

The Metro website reports that a 69-year-old grandmother has been jailed for 18 months for stealing £163,000 from her employer over a 13-year period.

Patricia Bennett used the proceeds of her thieving to fund caravanning holidays and trips to Spain, as well as a pop-up pub in the back of her newly refurbished garden.

According to the Plymouth Live website, a multi-million pound refit of assault vessel HMS Bulwark was delayed by three days after £24,000 worth of red diesel was stolen.

Lee Mann was detained by Ministry of Defence Police following an inquiry into the suspected loss of red diesel from a generator at HMNB Devonport in 2021.

As reported on The Sun website, shoplifting in Britain’s poshest neighbourhood has doubled in the past year.

In London’s SW3 Chelsea postcode, often well-dressed thieves are swiping high-value products from designer shops and swiftly selling them on to cash in.