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The Hull Live website reports that several Hull supermarket stores are resorting to security tagging certain meat products to prevent shoplifting.

Two Co-op food stores and a 24-hour Sainsbury’s Local decided to tag some items to protect high value or frequently stolen items.

The Dorset Live website reports that a convicted fraudster who stole nearly £500,000 from her employer, has been ordered to repay £120,000.

Emma Elizabeth Rhodes was sentenced to five years in prison in November 2020, after defrauding £437,431.68 from Norco Holdings.

The Northern Echo website reports that a finance officer transferred nearly £27,000 of clients’ payments into her own bank account over a 13-month period.

Making 62 fraudulent transactions, Gillian Burke then removed evidence of the payments from the company’s computer system.

According to the Unilad website, a leading Police & Crime Commissioner has stated that short sentences do not work for a low-level crime like shoplifting.

Donna Jones believes that jail sentences should be reserved for violent crimes and sex offences, and that retailers should help fund thieves’ rehabilitation.

As reported on the Metro website, a grandmother has vowed to stop thieving and turn her life around.

Leanne Stapleton – accused of stealing more than £200-worth of toiletries – told a court, “I’m tired of it all now,” as she faced prison for another 15 crimes.

The Liverpool Echo website reports that a highly-paid managing director stole more than £250,000 from his employer, in a ‘brazen fraud, cleverly disguised by false accounting’.

Adrian Platt raised false purchase orders between is employers and his friend, Bernard Giam, who then produced invoices claiming his companies had supplied environmental consultancy services.