Category Archives: Civil Recovery

A fake designer goods trader has been jailed for 15 months after his bedroom wardrobe was found stuffed with counterfeit luxury watches, sunglasses, clothing and aftershave.

The illegal haul, belonging to Conroy Lindsay – dubbed Scotland’s ‘King of Bling’ – would have been worth more than £650,000 if the goods had been genuine.

According to the Hull Daily Mail website, a removals company deputy manager cynically betrayed the trust of his boss by stealing nearly £9k from him whilst he was away on holiday.

When he was finally tracked down in Torquay, Steven Fowler then tried to blame the boss’s son for the missing money.

As reported on the Metro website, supermarkets have enlisted staff – ‘meat monitors’ – to protect expensive cuts of meat due to increased shoplifting sparked by the cost-of-living crisis.

Upmarket stores in Maidenhead were forced to act after losing ‘thousands of pounds worth of stock’ every week.

The Chronicle Live website reports that Tesco is increasing security at its stores to prevent shoplifting as people struggle with the rising costs of living.

The retailer is “putting more security presence” into branches most impacted by shoplifting, its chairman has said.

The Hull Daily Mail website reports that an assistant accountant stole more than £80k from her employers, to pay for a lavish lifestyle, including an Audi A7 and holidays to Florida, Lapland, and New York.

Katie Nelson used blank cheques already signed by bosses to pay cash to herself.

As reported on The Cumberland News wesbite, a pub worker with a secret cocaine addiction stole from his employer in a desperate bid to settle his drugs debt.

During a four-day period of sick leave, Ryan Wightman repeatedly sneaked back into the office so that he could steal cash from the safe.