Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Manchester Evening News website reports that the city’s infamous ‘Counterfeit Street’ is to be bulldozed, in a radical move to smash a “national magnet for criminality”.

Buildings on Bury New Road are to be closed, compulsory purchased, and then flattened, in an operation to erase for good dozens of shops in the area which sell fake clothing, perfume, tobacco and toys.

The Bournemouth Echo website reports that an employee stole stock worth over £54k before selling it on eBay during the height of the COVID pandemic.

Steven Keith Fugatt started stealing in March 2020 and his thieving continued for more than a year, which caused significant harm to his employer’s business model.

The South Wales Argus reports that an employee stole more than £1.3 million from a family business to fund a “ridiculous” gambling addiction and pay for lavish holidays.

Alison Smith was employed as a financial manager at Eiran Civil Engineering Ltd and defrauded the company for nearly a decade.

The Belfast Live website reports that high performance police Interceptor cars are being used to tackle organised shoplifting gangs operating across Ireland and Britain.

Police and retail chiefs say a number of gangs, who had stolen goods worth thousands of pounds, have been caught thanks to use of the vehicles and the sharing of intelligence between officers and businesses.

The Daily Record website reports that an “overzealous” security guard at a Lidl store broke a thief’s leg after tackling him for shoplifting.

Leandro Da Silva spotted the thief – David O’Connor – trying to steal from the shop in Edinburgh and knelt on his body to restrain him, before piling a second thief on top of him.

According to the Hull Live website, an employee stole £100,000 from her employer over a five-year period, to fund a lavish ‘Instagram’ lifestyle.

Laura Howarth officially earned just over £900 a month as a finance assistant but stole every week, taking her fraudulent ‘salary’ up to an eye-watering £6,000 a month.