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The Leader website reports that a prolific shoplifter from Wrexham has been jailed after stealing whilst serving a suspended sentence.

Claire Louise Jones had previous convictions for 169 offences, committing crimes over the years to feed her drug addiction.

According to the Bracknell News website, a charity treasurer stole more than £800,000 in donations by taking raffle tickets from a lavish gala dinner attended by international superstars.

Amanda Bishop – jailed for five years – kept money intended to help GroceryAid, having volunteered with the Sandhurst-based charity for nearly a quarter of a century.

According to The Independent website, an accountant’s obsession with a webcam model led him to steal almost £250,000 from his football club employer.

Andrew Barnbrook secretly transferred the money from AFC Fylde to his personal bank account for up to two and a half years before he was finally caught.

The Manchester Evening News website reports that the British justice system has been described as an ‘absolute joke’ by a business owner who was scammed by an employee for £5,000, just nine months after she was spared jail for another £22,500 fraud.

The Travel Weekly website gives details of a fraudster who lifted the career details of a sales chief, added them to his own CV and started applying for jobs in the industry.

Luke Smith was alerted by a travel industry colleague that a man calling himself ‘Hugh Harben’ was applying for roles using information taken from Smith’s own LinkedIn profile.

According to the Shropshire Star website, a financial controller stole almost half a million pounds from the firm by paying himself a double salary and ‘bonuses’ – for six years.

Johnathan Darren Lucas admitting defrauding his employer, SP Services UK Ltd, of £443,887, between 2011 and 2017.