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The Daily Mail website reports that a plumbing firm’s manager stole almost £80,000 worth of stock and sold it on his unsuspecting wife’s eBay account.

Andrew Clarke – jailed for two years – stole taps, showers and boilers before offering them for sale on the online auction site at 25% off the RRP.

According to the Swindon Advertiser, a shameless shoplifter asked magistrates not to ban him from Primark, as he was about to receive an order banning him from all shops.

Martin Morgan interrupted the online court hearing, telling JPs he needed to go to sports shops and Primark, as he didn’t know where else he was going to get clothes from.

The News & Star website reports that a school staff member stole photocopier toner worth more than £117,000 during a six-year period.

Wayne David Raymond Collins admitted to taking the toner from his employer, St. Benedict’s Catholic High School, Whitehaven.

The Surrey Live website reports that a Waitrose worker with a gambling addiction stole £63,000 worth of goods from the store where he worked – to sell on eBay.

Nick Tauwhare took items including boxes of toiletries, razors, chocolate and coffee, along with flat pack boxes, envelopes, stamps and bubble wrap for postage.

The Bristol Live website reports that a butcher used his early, unsupervised shifts to steal meat which he then sold to pay off his gambling debts.

Thomas Whitehouse – jailed for nine months – worked at Ruby and White and had been trusted to go to work early, but started to steal stock to order.

The Swindon Advertiser website reports that a serial thief has been jailed for a shoplifting spree three days before Christmas.

Jason Otley took a £69 hooded top from Hugo Boss, before going on to steal sweets from Cadbury’s, water from Costa Coffee, and a Lego model car from Hamleys, worth £238.