Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Liverpool Echo website reports that an accountant stole £20k from his employer after resigning his position, following a negative performance review.

After Kieran Moore had left the company, a contractor reported they had not been paid for work carried out and that bank details on their paperwork were wrong.

According to the Stoke On Trent Live website, a worker stole £6,000 from his employer and blew the lot on clothes and other items in one weekend.

Lewis Moore-Martin entered his work premises using a key, deactivated the alarm, went into the safe and helped himself to £6,000 in cash.

According to the Manchester Evening News website, a lettings agent fleeced landlord clients and her bosses out of as much as £130,000.

Joanne Barker secretly defrauded dozens of clients, siphoning money into her own accounts and her personal trainer’s – with whom she was having an affair.

The BBC News website reports that an Asda worker stole more than £26,000 over a three-month period, by creating fake refunds.

Aaron Hughes – jailed for a year – used the money to pay for “luxury” shopping trips to Harrods and Selfridges and holidays.

The Retail Gazette website writes that employees account for 40% of the value of theft across UK retailers, according to new research from Retail Economics and Thruvision. Two-thirds of respondents thought financial pressure due to the cost-of-living crisis had led to a rise in theft by distribution centre staff over the past year. Staff working …

The Belfast Telegraph reported that a local man has admitted to stealing more than £3,000 of Lego during a three-month shoplifting spree.

In 11 separate incidents, Peter Stewart stole the popular children’s toy from a range of shops including Tesco, B&M and Smyths Toys Superstores.