Category Archives: Civil Recovery

According to the Teesside Live website, a thief who is “addicted” to shoplifting embarked on another crime spree just days after telling a judge she was ‘turning her life around’.

Leanne Stapleton told a court in September that she was “actually tired of it all now”, but committed further offences while on police and court bail.

According to the Portsmouth News website, a Royal Navy sailor faked GCSE certificates, but was caught out because he spelt his own name wrong.

Leading Seaman Ian O’Mahoney claimed he received B and C grades in his English GCSE exams and forged two AQA exam board certificates.

The BBC News website reports that a woman from Dublin stole two Mulberry handbags worth a total of £1,890 from a House Of Fraser store in Belfast in July 2016.

Catherine Gaffney also shoplifted a further three Mulberry handbags worth a total of £3,000 in November of the same year

The Leicester Mercury website reports that a manager cheated his new employer out of cash whilst awaiting sentence for defrauding Nuffield Health out of £60,000.

Calvin Holman made fraudulent expense claims from Axa Insurance, despite having a suspended jail sentence for a similar scam with his previous employer.

The Sun reports that a Santander customer services manager has been jailed after stealing more than £200,000 from customer accounts.

Mohamed Hussain was provided with compromised account details by an accomplice, Sebastio Sala, and went on to transfer £217,133.17 over a 14-month period.

According to the Yorkshire Evening Post website, a thief stole over £7,000 in three months from a small Leeds firm and lied to his bosses about his mum dying from cancer.

Thomas Moule was seen 24 times on CCTV footage taking money that should have gone into the till, losing the company a total of £7,093.