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The Mail Online website reports that a pharmacist stole £15,000-worth of prescription weight-loss drugs and shingles vaccines to secretly stock up an online business.

A court heard how Modie Al-Shakarchi set up the fraudulent business to ‘prove himself’ to his high-achieving family.

The Mail Online website reports that a conman who once blew £170,000 of stolen money on a cocaine-fuelled weekend, has been jailed for stealing £90,000 from his new employers.
Darren Carvill changed his surname to Medhurst by deed poll, and landed jobs as a finance assistant at a travel agency and an hotel.

The BBC News website reports that a man has been sentenced for defrauding his employer of £81,000, to partly pay for a house deposit and a car loan.

Muhammad Shafiq stole the money from a media company in Bristol over a period of 18 months, transferring the cash to his own bank account and then to a company he set up.

As reported on the Independent website, the chair of Marks and Spencer, Archie Norman, has said the police are “not interested” in shoplifting.

Despite record levels across the UK, Norman said his staff get “very little help from the police” when dealing with theft.

As reported on the Wigan Today website, two shoplifters went on thieving sprees over three months, targeting supermarket chain Morrisons.

Antonio Marin and Valentin-Florin Ionica stole a total of £9,408 worth of goods in 12 strikes in stores in Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, the Midlands and the West Country.

According to the Hunts Post website, Keir Starmer has promised retail workers he will crack down on crime and reverse what he called a Tory “Shoplifter’s Charter”.

In a speech at retail union USDAW’s conference, he pledged to reverse a policy that means shoplifting of goods under £200 is not investigated.