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According to Pendle Today, a Sainsbury’s supervisor stole almost £2,500 with a refund trick, then bought expensive goods to sell on ebay.

Thomas Grice – who claimed he was in debt due to credit cards and loans – scanned items in the store and put their value on gift cards.

The Darlington & Stockton Times reports that a carer who was struck off amid allegations of theft forged documents to allow her to continue to work.

Veronica Newton falsified a police record to get another job and kept up the charade until other clients reported things missing from their homes.

The Mirror has a story of a doctor who pretended to be a specialist in trauma, orthopaedics and surgery to win work as an expert witness in court cases.

A medical misconduct tribunal ruled that Titus Odedun had “no right to use the various titles he awarded himself” and found he did so “in order to obtain a greater volume of medico-legal work at a significantly higher fee”.

According to the Falmouth Packet, leaving a petrol station without paying for fuel to be treated as a civil matter by Cornish police.

Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton, of Devon and Cornwall Police, said, “Businesses need to use the civil recovery options already available to recover their losses.”

The Daily Record reports that a Managing Director stole goods from his own company – valued at almost £200k – and sold them on ebay.

The owners of Aero Leather Clothing Ltd discovered William Lauder had been selling factory products on the online auction site to the value of £195,000.

An opinion piece in Sheffield’s The Star reaffirms the scale of shoplifting and states that, like the vast majority of crime, the crime is a selfish act which benefits the thief and punishes the rest of us. Shoplifters in the area committed 10,345 offences last year, new figures reveal.