Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to the Fashion United website, recent research conducted by Watchfinder & Co., identified 1,010,572 fake watches circulating within the UK market.

An estimated 40 million counterfeit watches are sold worldwide annually, resulting in profits exceeding 1 billion dollars.

As reported on the City Of London Police website, counterfeit clothing, handbags and fakr watches – worth an estimated loss to the fashion industry of £5 million, were seized in Camden, north London.
Officers seized the fake goods from two shops on Camden High Street and three people were arrested.

According to the Metro website, first-time offenders caught shoplifting could now receive just a caution from police, it has been revealed.

The guidance is part of Government efforts to end a patchwork of cautions, warnings and penalties used to deal with minor crimes.

The Lancashire Telegraph website reports that a pharmaceutical dispenser who stole anxiety medication from his employer before selling them to other people has been jailed for repeating the same crime some 10 years later.

Irfan Patel began ordering boxes of painkillers Tramadol and Dihydrocodeine, when he was not authorised to do so, and took them home without permission.

According to the website theindustry.fashion, incidents of retail theft have increased by 26% across ten of the largest cities in the UK.

Cases which include abuse, or physical assault, have also risen from the pre-COVID high of over 450 per day in 2019/20, to over 850 per day in 2022.

According to the Liverpool Echo website, a conwoman stole more than £150,000 from the charity she worked for, by transferring thousand of pounds out of her employers’ bank account and into that of her friend’s butty van business.

Donna Wells fled the UK for Turkey before she faced justice for her fraud.