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The Metro website reports that a 69-year-old grandmother has been jailed for 18 months for stealing £163,000 from her employer over a 13-year period.

Patricia Bennett used the proceeds of her thieving to fund caravanning holidays and trips to Spain, as well as a pop-up pub in the back of her newly refurbished garden.

According to the Plymouth Live website, a multi-million pound refit of assault vessel HMS Bulwark was delayed by three days after £24,000 worth of red diesel was stolen.

Lee Mann was detained by Ministry of Defence Police following an inquiry into the suspected loss of red diesel from a generator at HMNB Devonport in 2021.

As reported on The Sun website, shoplifting in Britain’s poshest neighbourhood has doubled in the past year.

In London’s SW3 Chelsea postcode, often well-dressed thieves are swiping high-value products from designer shops and swiftly selling them on to cash in.

The Oxford Mail website reports that a music shop employee stole £27,000-worth of stock to sell on eBay after struggling with his finances.

Christopher Riton-Hayward began stealing from his employer within months of taking the job and spent half a year taking items from the stock room.

According to the Metro website, ITV News was interviewing a shop owner in south London about the UK’s shoplifting ‘epidemic’ when a thief was caught trying to steal booze on camera.

The shoplifter walked straight into the shop and made straight for the alcohol section, hiding a bottle in his pocket.

According to the Law Gazette website, a former legal cashier with a Yorkshire law firm has been barred, after helping herself to thousands from the office account.

Jenny Spink joined Pudsey Legal Services in March 2020 and subsequently made five transfers to her own bank account before leaving two years later.