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The onlinecasino.co.uk website reports that a former assistant manager of Coral embezzled thousands of pounds after discovering a glitch in the company’s computer system that allowed him to bet on matches after the final whistle had blown.

Gavin Thompson employed friends as proxy gamblers, supplying the stake and processing the transactions while they placed bogus bets at Coral branches in Dundee and Forfar.

The BBC News website reports that a senior NHS manager treated his local trust as his “personal cash machine”, whilst leading a gang who used £650,000 of taxpayers’ money to fund luxury refurbishments on their homes.

Royston Dyke was responsible for overseeing project managers engaged in estate works but siphoned off cash from the NHS trust’s coffers.

As reported on The Star website, Frances Bishop who starred in the 2016 series of The Apprentice has called for tougher sentencing for shoplifters after being attacked in her own store.

Frances Bishop was working at the store in Waterdale Shopping Centre when she was assaulted by a man who was furtively placing two outfits into a large bag.

Mail Online reports that a security officer claims that he was told by Devon & Cornwall police that retailers should call shoplifters’ parents, not the police, as the force will not respond unless the value stolen is over £200.

The security worker – who wishes to remain anonymous – said, “Police are no longer going to attend shoplifting arrests in stores.

As reported in The Mirror, a woman with cancer stole £600,000 from her employer to fuel her luxury lifestyle, taking the huge sum by transferring small payments to her account, over years.
Kathryn Jones, an administration assistant at Technical Plastics Limited, had main access to employees’ wages and expenses.

The Southern Daily Echo reports that a student ‘systematically’ stole more than £20,000 from a branch of TK Maxx in Winchester.

Mizael de Medeiros – jailed for 16 months – admitted stealing money and goods from the store just weeks after starting a job there.