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A selection of news stories from across the UK, relating to civil recovery, retail theft, employment screening, online fraud and other subjects relevant to the services and crime deterrent solutions that CRS can offer your business.

Manager Stole To Buy Fleet Of Taxis

The Evening Standard reports that a school business manager stole £220,000 to fund the purchase of a fleet of taxis in The Gambia with her boyfriend.

Over six months in 2011, Kirsty Holmes and her partner Sunday Kalu cashed cheques from Battersea Park School in London.

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Crowds Block Shoplifter’s Escape

Mail Online reports that a crowd surrounded a suspected shoplifter in a branch of Sports Direct in Greater Manchester and shouted, “Don’t let her get away with it.”

Video footage of the incident went viral and showed a quick-thinking schoolboy putting the brake on her pram, which allegedly contained the goods, so she is unable to flee with them.

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Ambulance Driver Faked Documents

The Wirral Globe reports that an ambulance driver admitted creating a number of fraudulent documents to gain employment with Jigsaw Medical Services, a private company based in Ellesmere Port.

Jack Walter was assigned to several posts within NHS ambulance trusts.

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Treasurer Pays Back £700 Of £67k

The Northern Echo reports that the treasurer of a motor club who stole almost £67,000 to fund a gambling addiction has been ordered to repay just £731.

Gambling addict Elizabeth Russell’s employer – Richmond Motor Club – was almost bankrupted by her dishonesty.

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Fraudster Stole £200k

The Sun reports that an office manager stole £200,000 from her company and spent it on cars, holidays – and meeting TV celebrities Ant and Dec.

Amanda Toward bid for tickets with access to the TV pair at a charity auction, as well as spending her ill-gotten gains on a Range Rover and a lavish lifestyle.

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Worker Stole Specialist Kit From Sellafield

The Carlisle News & Star reported that a man stole specialist equipment whilst working at the Sellafield nuclear plant and sold it on eBay.

Nicholas Hanna – employed as an instrument mechanic – stole two pressure calibrators potentially worth almost £20,000 and then duped a friend into letting him use an eBay account to sell the items.

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