Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to the Birmingham Live website, a pair of shoplifters have been jailed after they staged a “sophisticated, pre-planned operation” to steal clothes from TK Maxx.

Florentina Carcu and Daniela Grama used a device to defeat the retailer’s security measures, working as a team to steal almost £2,000-worth of clothing.

According to an article on The Fashion Law website, a recent survey from the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office [UKIPO] revealed that over 13% of participants claim their purchasing of counterfeit products has been influenced by social media endorsements.

According to the Northampton Chronicle website, a shoplifter was sent to jail three days before Christmas after admitting 13 thefts from five shops, totalling £1,600.

Vaughan Coe took booze totalling more than £870 from M&S, BP, One Stop and Sainsbury’s, plus £80-worth of Cathedral City Cheddar cheese from B&M.

According to the Lancashire Telegraph website, a serial shoplifter has been banned from all branches of Boots, Homebase, Tesco and Nisa stores for two years.

Colin Andrew Bray pleaded guilty to five charges of shoplifting and one of assaulting a member of staff at Nisa who had tried to stop him leaving.

The Chronicle Live website reports that a bank worker helped herself to £1.3 million in a shocking abuse of trust whilst working for her employer, Virgin PLC.

Laura Matthews transferred huge sums to herself and altered records to cover her tracks, only being caught when a stand-in noticed a discrepancy.

As reported on The South Wales Argus website, a secretary who stole £22,500 from her primary school has been ordered to pay back all the money – or face 12 months in jail.

Charlotte Pearce created a false trail of invoices to cover her tracks as she plundered the cash from the school’s various coffers.