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According to the Braintree & Witham Times, a woman who carried out a lottery scam valued at almost £40,000 has avoided jail and ordered to pay back just £900.

Shell Service Station employee Donna Berwick decided to try to pay off her debts and make some money by stealing lottery scratch cards and collecting any winnings.

Mail Online carries a story about a cancer surgeon who lied about how many keyhole surgery operations he had done so he could get an £84,000-a-year job at a hospital.

Sudip Sarker, is accused of lying about his experience whilst applying for the post of consultant general surgeon at Worcester Royal Hospital and Alexandra Hospital, Redditch.

As reported in The Sun, a warehouse boss stole nearly £30,000 worth of stock by secretly posting parcels to himself to sell on.

Daniel Butler stole 800 items including electricals, toys and games from Electrolve Ltd and ran his own online business from his home.

SomersetLive reports that a former mayor of Bruton and town councillor has admitted in court that he shoplifted after descending into a spiral of depression.

Alex Rubbo had started drinking in a bid to self-medicate his problems and then helped himself to cigarettes and alcohol from the branch of Spar where he was working.

The Daily Post reports that a brazen shoplifter who filled a supermarket trolley to the brim with meat and left without paying, has been jailed for 18 weeks – “the only sentence to protect shopkeepers”, according to the prosecuting magistrate.

As reported on the Economia website, British companies have reported more incidences of fraud and cyber crime than any other country in the world, behind only Colombia.

According to Kroll’s Global Fraud and Risk Report, the most common types of fraud in the UK were theft of physical assets and the misappropriation of funds, with most fraudsters coming from inside the company.