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The Chard and Ilminster News website reports that the man who cheated his way into the top job at a Taunton charity won’t now have to repay any of the money he earned whilst in the post.
A court has decided that Jon Andrewes – a builder who falsified his CV to land a £75,000-a-year job at St Margaret’s Hospice – gave “full value” for the money he received.

The Stoke On Trent Live website reports that thief Kieran Sharkie stole £30 worth of Yankee Candles after claiming he was being ‘bullied’ in sheltered housing.

A court heard that Sharkie was coerced into drug-taking, assaulted and stolen from and was told to take property and goods that could be sold on.

The Belfast Telegraph’s website reports that two friends who went on a pre-Christmas shoplifting spree have been given jail sentences totalling 27 months.

Joseph McCabe and Brian Paul Ward were jointly accused of four counts of theft relating to £231 of Christmas decorations from The Range, four turkeys from Iceland, and a lamb from Tesco.

As reported on the Metro website, the notorious ‘Shoplifting Queen’ and grandmother Kim Farry has turned her life around after becoming an online personal trainer during lockdown.

Farry was jailed five times for theft during a 45-year criminal career, started taking food and clothes at the age of nine to help support her parents and eight younger siblings.

The News website reports that a Royal Navy reservist stole £71,000 and attempted to take a further £25,000 using forged documents.

Lieutenant Mark Vickers fraudulently claimed the money when he was deployed in the Royal Navy Reserve to Bahrain.

According to the Cambridgeshire Live website, a Morrisons cashier stole thousands of pounds in vouchers, scanning the barcodes to activate them for his personal use.

Johnny Tucker was filmed on the supermarket’s CCTV sitting at a till for about 40 minutes, in which time he had processed more than £6,600-worth of vouchers.