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The Express reports that police are failing to catch the vast majority of burglars, car thieves and shoplifters, with half of shoplifting cases being closed without identifying a suspect.

Business owners fear the alarming statistics will give criminals the ‘green light’ to wreak havoc.

Kent Online reports that a shop worker who stole goods and cash worth £9,000 whilst working at TK Maxx was only caught after an internal investigation.

Jane Stockford took money from tills and refunded clothes she had stolen to gain the funds back.

Kent Online reports that a gambling addict stole car parts from his employer and sold them on eBay during a period of nearly five years, netting over £80,000 in the process.

Robin Lambkin even organised a courier to pick up larger parts from Gefco auto body shop in Sheerness, Kent, whilst taking smaller items in his own rucksack.

The Express reports that an airport worker stole £15,000 worth of jewellery from British Airways over four years, selling the booty on eBay.

Michal Harazinski – jailed for a year – was employed by Gate Gourmet, which is contracted by the airline, and was responsible for loading and unloading boxes off BA flights.

According to the Express, a new survey shows that men are far more likely to lie on their CV than women, with 42% claiming to have done so during their careers.

The survey revealed that 38% per cent of the women surveyed had also lied, with both sexes admitting that fear of the competition forced them to stretch the truth.

The onlinecasino.co.uk website reports that a former assistant manager of Coral embezzled thousands of pounds after discovering a glitch in the company’s computer system that allowed him to bet on matches after the final whistle had blown.

Gavin Thompson employed friends as proxy gamblers, supplying the stake and processing the transactions while they placed bogus bets at Coral branches in Dundee and Forfar.