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According to the Heart website, a couple who stole more than £100,000 pounds worth of designer clothes across the UK have been jailed.

Ionut and Mirela Vasile struck at luxury outlets Louis Vuitton, Harvey Nichols and Burberry, with CCTV footage showing them pulling off a shoplifting scam in Manchester, Edinburgh, London, Nottingham and Milton Keynes.

An employee of a Savills letting agency swindled her employer out of around £16,000, taking cash received as tenants’ deposits.

Julie Feilden, a lettings administrator, was made redundant from the Newmarket branch in 2015, but asked if she could take the books home to get them up-to-date.

According to The Sun, a 79-year-old great grandmother began a five-year shoplifting spree – because she was bored.

June Humphreys has clocked up her 39th theft, after starting to steal in her seventies to get out of her home in Crewe, travelling on her free bus pass to swipe hundreds of pounds of goods.

As reported on the Mancunion website, more than 40 websites have been shut down as part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent institutions.

One site claimed to be Stafford University – which is non-existent – and another called itself “Wolverhamton University” as opposed to Wolverhampton University.

According to Wales Online, the deputy manager of a designer menswear store in Cardiff stole jackets worth more than £1,000 before selling them online.
Scott Jones was caught after the German manufacturer contacted the distributor, who then set up a trap on a Facebook page.

The Bristol Post reports that when a shoplifter was stopped by police in possession of almost £1,000-worth of goods, he told them he wanted to give out presents like Santa.

Simon Thyer was detained by officers as he wheeled a trolley from Marks and Spencer, loaded with gifts, clothes and food.