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As reported on the Metro website, an office manager stole more than £900,000 from her property agent employers to fund a luxury lifestyle – including VIP days out at top sporting events and five-star holidays.

Emma Hunt diverted rent payments into her own account, which allowed to live like a millionaire on a £26,000-a-year wage.

According to the Wales Online website, a headteacher benefited financially by sharing profits from an on-site nursery which ran from her school.

Catherine Lloyd-Jenkins did not declare her business interest in the nursery or the fact that she had a close personal relationship with its manager, Michelle Howell.

As reported on the Wales Online website, a construction company manager stole at least £20,000 from his employer and spent a lot of it on porn websites.

Thomas Stiles altered invoices and payslips over a ten-month period, sending his ill-gotten gains to a secondary bank account.

The Liverpool Echo website reports that an employee at a solicitors’ firm stole nearly £1million to give to a man who didn’t exist.

Manjit Singh – jailed for two years – transferred huge sums of money into the bank account of a supposed lover she had met on a dating website.

As reported on the BBC News website, Waitrose has reported a rise in shoplifting in its stores across the UK, blaming steal-to-order gangs and anti-social behaviour for the surge in cases.

Conservative MP James Sunderland said, “Gangs appear to be operating with impunity across the South East – not just at Waitrose but all supermarkets.”

As reported on the Daily Mail website, a bookkeeper who stole more than £180,000 from her employer was found out over a £37 shopping trip at B&Q.

Tracy Ellis used 139 separate transactions to steal the huge sum of money over a period of more than five years, and lived a ‘fantasy life’ on the proceeds of her fraud.