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The BBC News website reports that a business analyst has been jailed for stealing more than £700,000 from his employer, Oxford Bus Company.

As one of the staff responsible for recording money on to a computer system once it had been counted, Colin Smart took the sum between May 2010 and March 2017.

According to the Real Business website, invoice fraud is on the rise, as technology brings with it new opportunities for fraudsters as well as for legitimate businesses.

Recent research found that UK SMEs are losing more than £9bn through invoice fraud every year, amounting to £1,658 per SME.

As reported in the Liverpool Echo, a pair of brazen shoplifters left court while their trial was on a lunch break – to go on another thieving spree at shops nearby.

Robert Smith and Irene Jones even brought the goods they’d stolen from a nearby Iceland store and a pet shop with them back to the court.

According to the Manchester Evening News, a department store worker stole luxury, designer brands worth over £5,000 over the course of one month.

William Townsend stole to fund his gambling habit, after initially planning to buy the items using his 35% staff discount and sell them on at a profit.

As reported in the Leicester Mercury, a thieving hospital nurse stole up to £10,000 worth of items ranging from scouring pads to computers and cameras.

Toby Brownson started working at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1994 and over the next 20 years he helped himself to pillows, biscuits, a printer, bed sheets and batteries.

Birmingham Live reports that the West Midlands Police Commissioner wants to provide heroin to hardened addicts in a bid to stop them carrying out burglaries, robberies and car thefts in the city.

By giving heroin to convicted addicts in a controlled medical setting, the aim is to ‘take the market away from organised criminals and stop people stealing to fund their addiction’.