Category Archives: Civil Recovery

A reported on the Chester Standard website, a letting manager defrauded a six-figure sum from a Chester estate agents, which led to them having to make redundancies.

Wendy Dare had full access to the company account and made many fraudulent payments from that account over several years.

According to the Stoke Sentinel website, a gambling gambling addict blew her inheritance and then began creating fake invoices to steal more than £21,000 from her employer.

Maxine Parkes – jailed for 20 months – had previously stolen £44,000 from a previous job as a bookkeeper.

According to the Telegraph & Argus website, a car saleswoman has admitted to stealing more than £23,000 from a family-run dealer group in Bradford.

Donna O’Melia took cash payments from customers and kept the money, using it to fund her serious gambling addiction.

A letter on The Guardian website details how one supermarket employee is “burnt out” from dealing with shoplifters in a London store.

The letter from an anonymous contributor details the massive increase in shoplifting and theft that is described as “to order”.

As reported on the Mirror website, a shoplifter stole 144 bars of chocolate right in front of CCTV – only to return later to steal ten jars of coffee.

Jordan Thomson – jailed for 22 weeks, his second sentence this year – was recorded on security cameras stealing the sweets from a branch of Co-Op in Worthing, West Sussex.

The Chemist + Druggist website reports that a pharmacy worker stole more than £330,000 worth of diabetes testing kits from a pharmacy in Leicester.

A court heard how Abdul Nargoliya – jailed for almost 4 years – was found to have deposited £429,000 to gambling companies.