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As reported on the Metro website, the notorious ‘Shoplifting Queen’ and grandmother Kim Farry has turned her life around after becoming an online personal trainer during lockdown.

Farry was jailed five times for theft during a 45-year criminal career, started taking food and clothes at the age of nine to help support her parents and eight younger siblings.

The News website reports that a Royal Navy reservist stole £71,000 and attempted to take a further £25,000 using forged documents.

Lieutenant Mark Vickers fraudulently claimed the money when he was deployed in the Royal Navy Reserve to Bahrain.

According to the Cambridgeshire Live website, a Morrisons cashier stole thousands of pounds in vouchers, scanning the barcodes to activate them for his personal use.

Johnny Tucker was filmed on the supermarket’s CCTV sitting at a till for about 40 minutes, in which time he had processed more than £6,600-worth of vouchers.

According to The Star website, an accountant working for a van rental firm was coerced into committing a £45k fraud by her abusive partner.

A court heard that Sarah Brown only received about a third of the money she stole from TG Commercials over a two-month period in 2017.

The Inverness Courier website reports that a serial shoplifter stole more than £1600 worth of goods from Inverness stores in the first seven months of 2020.

Jacqueline Rabbeth – jailed for a total of 27 months – admitting seven charges of shoplifting from Debenhams, Superdrug and Marks and Spencer.

According to the York Press website, a store manager at a branch of the Co-op stole £10,000 from its safe, then claimed staff were liars when they didn’t believe he was innocent of the theft.

Ian Todd turned off the CCTV in the shop, but before it powered down, it had captured him pocketing wads of cash.