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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.
Bookies Clerk Staged Fake Hold-Up
The Express reports that a father and daughter staged a faked robbery at a bookmakers in a plot to steal £3,500.
Chevvine Darling worked as a cashier at a branch of Ladbrokes when her father, John White, allegedly walked in wearing a black cap and a green scarf over his face.
read moreAsda Boss Stole £34k From Tills
The Manchester Evening News reports that a trusted Asda supermarket boss dipped her fingers in the tills to steal more than £34,000 over eight months.
Tracy Crowley waged a ‘quite deliberate and prolonged’ campaign of theft and caught after a colleague became suspicious.
read moreCo-Op Worker Loses Job Over Ciggie Theft
As reported in the East Anglian Daily Times, a former Co-op employee lost his job and previous good character after confessing to stealing more than £1,000 worth of cigarettes.
Paul Adams was caught in the act on CCTV and immediately came clean, confessing to stealing £1,173 worth of cigarettes over the course of two-and-a-half months.
read moreMore CCTV On Self-Service Tills
According to The Mirror, Sainsbury’s will soon be watching shoppers’ every move after installing extra CCTV at their self-service checkouts.
The supermarket – fed up with people slipping extra items into their bags – has fitted CCTV cameras and mirrors above the self-checkout tills in a new security scheme.
read moreFraudster Stole To Fund Lavish Lifestyle
The Yorkshire Evening Post reports that a fraudster stole £216,000 from a Leeds-based Christian charity to fund a lavish lifestyle.
Lee Patterson covered his tracks by creating false business accounts and diverted funds into his own bank accounts which he used to build an extension on his home and buy a car for his son.
read moreShop Worker Stole Perfume Worth £15k
According to Chronicle Live, a John Lewis worker stole thousands of pound worth of fragrances and then sold them on her eBay account.
Sophie Easten helped herself to expensive aftershaves and perfumes worth a total of £14,428 over an 11-month period and was only caught when bosses installed CCTV in the stock room.
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