Category Archives: Employment Screening

A woman has been jailed after she “systematically” stole £10,000 worth of stock from a Cambridge clothes shop and then sold it on eBay.

Madeline Stock has been locked up for four months after she sold off stock from clothing store Warehouse over a period of two years.

A Merseyside Police superintendent lied about himself and made misleading statements on his CV to secure transfers and career promotions.

Michael Martin wrongly claimed to have a university degree and said he led a review for implementing new policing strategies, following a high-profile death of a woman.

An investigation by the BBC raises troubling questions about the risks an over-reliance on locums poses to patient safety.

A recent court case involving a locum submitting forged documents highlighted concerns that some NHS trusts and agencies were not doing the most basic pre-employment checks.

The Evening Standard reported that one of the City’s top lawyers has quit his job after it was discovered that he had invented large chunks of a ‘glittering CV’.

Dennis O’Riordan boasted of first-class degrees and a doctorate at Oxford University and of studying at Harvard University – all of which were lies.

According to the Scunthorpe Telegraph, a company boss lied on his CV and falsely claimed £11,000.

Craig Taylor made false claims for VAT refunds to HM Revenue and Customs and also submitted a fraudulent CV to a company who took him on as a quantity surveyor.

A Cambridge University academic used false names and invoices regarding non-existent initiatives to steal hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

David Barrowclough made his first application for a lottery grant in 2005 and received regular grant money from 2006 until 2013.