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A selection of news stories from across the UK, relating to civil recovery, retail theft, employment screening, online fraud and other subjects relevant to the services and crime deterrent solutions that CRS can offer your business.
Manager Stole To Repay Loan Sharks
The Northern Echo website reports that a woman took advantage of her position to steal more than £22,000 to repay debts to a loan shark.
Kay McManus was in charge of overseeing rent accounts for a housing provider, but had acquired a huge gambling debt with extortionate interest rates.
read more‘Model Worker’ Stole £216k
The Devon Live website reports that a ‘model worker’ employed by a food company secretly stole £216,000 from the business to feed his gambling addiction.
Richard Jacobs’ fraud hit J&R Food Services so badly that some employees lost their jobs and others could not be paid bonuses.
read moreThief Banned From Wearing Hats
The Manchester Evening News website reports that a serial shoplifter has been banned from wearing a hat or any headgear in any supermarket.
The order is in response to thief Sam Taggart’s prolonged two-year stealing spree.
read moreShoe Shop Worker Stole £30k
The Warrington Guardian website reports that a shoe shop was nearly forced to close after an employee stole more than £30,000 from the business.
Lesa Carter swindled a total of £30,221.50 from two Clarks franchises by falsifying refunds and pocketing cash from the till.
read moreCashier Paid £1m To Crime Gang
According to the Metro website, a cashier at a branch of Ladbrokes handed over £1million in three hours, via invalid bets, to a gang who she claims forced her into it.
Paris Markham paid out on 22 horse racing bets worth £90 or £95, which each made between £5,000 and £100,000 at a branch of the betting chain in north London.
read moreThief Banned From Bristol
As reported on the Bristol Post website, a ‘professional shoplifter’ has been banned from entering Bristol city centre for three years.
Junior Miller, known as Errol Miller, has been convicted of 48 theft-related offences, stealing designer clothes to fund his ‘lavish life’.
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