Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Derby Telegraph website reports that a thief with previous convictions for theft and robbery, threw his employers’ trust “back in their face” by stealing £20,000 worth of goods.

Nathan Wood – also known as Nathan Huntington – stole pallets of insulation rolls from the firm’s warehouse on five separate occasions.

The Metro website reports that an office manager stole more than £14,000 from her employer to pay for IVF debts, council tax and fund her nephew at university.

Milanthi Welamedage was a trusted worker at Becon, a now defunct charity that helped black and ethnic minority communities.

The BBC News website reports that the son of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White has been jailed for a number of offences, including a string of thefts from shops.

Marco Pierre White Jr. was sentenced to 11 months in prison for the offences committed in Bath, with a previously suspended sentence of 32 weeks also activated.

According to the Bristol Post website, after a long-running legal battle, a man who faked a degree to land top positions within the NHS has been ordered to pay back nearly £100k in fraudulently obtained earnings.

John Andrewes pretended he had a PhD and made everyone call him ‘doctor’ as he took up senior roles in NHS trusts around the West Country.

The Hull Daily Mail website reports that 80 workers at a Hull plastics company all lost their jobs after a finance manager falsified accounts.

Ian Fisher grossly overstated the level of work that was in progress but understated the huge debts that the company faced – meaning that a completely misleading position was shown.

The Leeds Live website reports that shopkeepers in a Leeds estate have grown despondent with the increasingly “awkward” task of spotting local residents who steal from them.

One shopkeeper said teens work in groups to shoplift, and have formulated sophisticated methods of confusing staff to steal fizzy drinks and sweets.