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The Northamptonshire Telegraph website reports that a delivery driver agreed to hand over a high-value pallet of Philips electronics destined for John Lewis to men he owed money for a cocaine debt.

Ray Armer was snared when the items were eventually tracked down to an eBay account connected to his associates.

According to the Northern Echo website, a heartless accountant stole more than £250,000 from his employer who was busy caring for his terminally-ill wife.

Christopher Sopp had a position of trust, as a Citroen dealership’s financial director, but paid himself large sums which he hid within the company’s accounts.

The Northern Echo website reports that a man who sold stolen items on eBay benefitted from his crimes by £250,503 over a two-year period.

Malcolm Teasdale sold items stolen from lorries and from an electrical goods shop via an eBay account in his daughter’s name.

The East Anglian Daily Times reports that a trusted food supplier employee stole and sold over 100 cases of butter at knockdown prices.

Suffolk firm Infusions 4 Chefs employed Stuart Clarke as a delivery driver, but within a year he was promoted to a brand ambassador for the wholesaler.

The Yorkshire Evening Post website reports that the head of IT at Sky Betting in Leeds carried out a fraud worth almost a quarter of a million pounds.

For almost a year, Matt Richmond used the company account to order Apple MacBook Pros from suppliers and then sold them online.

According to the Eastern Daily Press website, a man got himself arrested for shoplifting as a way to try to smuggle drugs into jail, hidden in Kinder egg containers.

Jamie Burns was arrested for stealing alcohol but when placed in a police cell he admitted to officers he had heroin, cocaine and cannabis about his person, which he was planning to try to smuggle in to Norwich prison.