Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Wales Online website reports that a doctor who defrauded the NHS out of over £67,000 has had his medical licence returned, and has already received two job offers.

Between 2016 and 2019, Dr. Aled Jones forged hundreds of cheques and claimed for shifts he had not worked at the University Hospital of Wales.

The MyLondon website reports that a primary school business manager who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to fund her extravagant lifestyle has been jailed for six years.

Debra Poole was in charge of the Surrey school bank accounts plus the finances of its breakfast and after-school club.

The Hull Live website reports that a worker secretly sold scaffolding poles belonging to his employer because he needed to raise some much-needed cash.

Mark Dales was originally said to have helped himself to scaffolding worth £215,000 but he insisted that the actual value of the haul was just £7,000.

The Glasgow Evening Times website reports that a trusted manager has admitted stealing tens of thousands of pounds from his training company employers.

John Speirs was originally charged with stealing more than £50,000 over a period of more than two years.

The Oxford Mail website reports that a married man who was scammed in an online honeytrap used his employer’s cash to spend tens of thousands’ of pounds for his internet love-interest.

Alan Falkner stole £46,000 from engine manufacturer Lombardini, spending most of it on Amazon vouchers which he then passed on to a ‘woman’ he had met online.

As reported on the Eastern Daily Press website, a cash-in-transit driver handcuffed himself to his security van’s steering wheel during a faked armed heist of almost £1 million.

Andrew Measor was the ‘inside man’ in the armed robbery in Ilford and waited for two hours before using his nose to dial for help.