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As reported in The Westmorland Gazette, an assistant manager of a Lake District hotel has been jailed for four months after stealing thousands of pounds from his employer.

Tyrone Petit was employed at the Inn on the Square hotel in Keswick, and part of his duties included banking the hotel’s takings on a daily basis.

Kent Online carries a story of a wannabe actor who blamed the Tories after being caught on camera stealing £220 worth of alcohol from a branch of Waitrose in Hythe.

Mark Conway denied shoplifting – despite admitting he and a friend stole the items – and blamed “the looting Tories, who were the real criminals”.

The Hartlepool Mail reports that a fraudster who cheated his employer out of £40,000 to fund his drug addiction has been jailed.

John Simpson worked with Gary Dangerfield – MD of a Birmingham-based compressor firm which supplied Brooktherm – who raised inflated, duplicated or false invoices for Simpson to authorise.

Two soldiers and an accomplice have been sentenced for ‘stealing to order’ more than £45,000 of state-of-the-art equipment from the SAS.
Sergeants Craig Davenport and Stephen Suffield took items from MoD stores, which they passed on to Andrew Stevens, who sold them through contacts made on eBay.

The Belfast Telegraph reports that a mother accused of shoplifting on a near daily basis received up to $100,000 (£83k) selling the goods on eBay.

Deirdre McKeown travelled around N. Ireland stealing toys, beauty products and other items which she then immediately advertised on the auction website.

According to Glasgow’s Evening Times website, city centre police will be armed with body-cams in a bid to deter and catch festive shoplifters during one of Glasgow’s busiest shopping periods.
Images of shoplifters will be shared with retailers’ loss prevention officers, alerting them to potential criminal activity.