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According to Mail Online, a Chinese-run website is selling counterfeit designer goods so close to the real thing that only a microscope could reveal they were fakes.

High-quality copies of clothes, bags and shoes from luxury labels including Chanel and Hermes are being sold for less than one per cent of the genuine products’ retail prices.

The Convenience Store website reports that a London-based Nisa store has invested in smart technology to tackle shoplifting and has stopped 15 thieves in two weeks.
Once connected to existing cameras through the internet, Artificial Intelligence (AI) software monitors all the cameras for shoplifters.

The Wales Online website reports that a crime gang recruited teenage girls around the UK in a £500,000 shoplifting scam.

Gang members, including ringleader Isaiah Olugosi, recruited, trained and transported the youngsters to commit refund fraud in high street stores across the country.

The Chester Standard website reports that a serial meat thief from Ellesmere Port has been jailed for a total of 36 weeks.

Brendan Michael James Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty to a total of 10 charges of stealing meat from stores including M&S and Iceland.

According to the Cheshire Standard website, an online trader avoided jail despite admitting to selling thousands of fake Apple products.

Andrew Peter Twigg set up a company to sell spare parts and accessories for Apple iPhones and iPads via an eBay store and his own company website.

As reported on the Wales Online website, a dental nurse used fake patient names to defraud her employer of more than £60,000.

Jennifer Locke used ‘sophisticated’ methods at BUPA surgeries, and made almost 100 false refund transactions directly into her own bank account.