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As reported in The Sun, a warehouse boss stole nearly £30,000 worth of stock by secretly posting parcels to himself to sell on.

Daniel Butler stole 800 items including electricals, toys and games from Electrolve Ltd and ran his own online business from his home.

SomersetLive reports that a former mayor of Bruton and town councillor has admitted in court that he shoplifted after descending into a spiral of depression.

Alex Rubbo had started drinking in a bid to self-medicate his problems and then helped himself to cigarettes and alcohol from the branch of Spar where he was working.

The Daily Post reports that a brazen shoplifter who filled a supermarket trolley to the brim with meat and left without paying, has been jailed for 18 weeks – “the only sentence to protect shopkeepers”, according to the prosecuting magistrate.

As reported on the Economia website, British companies have reported more incidences of fraud and cyber crime than any other country in the world, behind only Colombia.

According to Kroll’s Global Fraud and Risk Report, the most common types of fraud in the UK were theft of physical assets and the misappropriation of funds, with most fraudsters coming from inside the company.

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.