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The Chad website reports that a glamorous fraudster stole around £115,000 in various ways, including increasing her own salary, making personal purchases on company credit cards and transferring cash into her own account, before blowing thousands on jewellery and beauty products.

The Independent reports that a police officer has been sacked for shoplifting £200 worth of items whilst on duty at Birmingham’s Bull Ring shopping centre.

A misconduct hearing heard that Abigail Smith stole £70-worth of moisturiser from Selfridges and said that she believed it “was a cry for help” after being “let down by West Midlands Police.”

BBC News reports that a finance worker stole more than £130,000 from her employer to fund her “lavish lifestyle”.

Claire Johnston – jailed for 20 months – used the proceeds of her crimes to pay for her wedding, holidays, weekends away and designer footwear.

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.

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.

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.