Category Archives: Civil Recovery

The Lancashire Telegraph website reports that a mum and son shoplifting team cleared a whole shelf of cosmetics in a branch of Boots, worth £1,364.

Ramona and Sebastian Gavril even returned to the same store three weeks later to steal sun cream worth £449.

The Northern Echo website reports that a woman took advantage of her position to steal more than £22,000 to repay debts to a loan shark.

Kay McManus was in charge of overseeing rent accounts for a housing provider, but had acquired a huge gambling debt with extortionate interest rates.

The Devon Live website reports that a ‘model worker’ employed by a food company secretly stole £216,000 from the business to feed his gambling addiction.

Richard Jacobs’ fraud hit J&R Food Services so badly that some employees lost their jobs and others could not be paid bonuses.

The Manchester Evening News website reports that a serial shoplifter has been banned from wearing a hat or any headgear in any supermarket.

The order is in response to thief Sam Taggart’s prolonged two-year stealing spree.

The Warrington Guardian website reports that a shoe shop was nearly forced to close after an employee stole more than £30,000 from the business.

Lesa Carter swindled a total of £30,221.50 from two Clarks franchises by falsifying refunds and pocketing cash from the till.

According to the Metro website, a cashier at a branch of Ladbrokes handed over £1million in three hours, via invalid bets, to a gang who she claims forced her into it.

Paris Markham paid out on 22 horse racing bets worth £90 or £95, which each made between £5,000 and £100,000 at a branch of the betting chain in north London.