INSANITY AND AUTOMATISM

Fraud, Insanity and Automatism

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Fraud, Insanity and Automatism

SET I

Jail for Sainsbury's IT boss who stole 17 million Nectar points

Article Analysis

This article illustrates the fraud conducted by James Stevenson, who worked in Sainsbury HQ in Holborn as an IT Manager. Stevenson was claimed to award himself £ 81000 worth of Nectar Points in to several accounts with fake names and names of some popular DJs. Stevenson was accused of transferring 17 million point and loyalty card into his accounts. Although he confessed that he used only about £ 8120 in purchases from a store. However, his total points can be redeemed at cinemas, Argos, the Eurostar, Orient Express, Amazon and resorts such as Alton Towers. A total price of ticket worth £ 30, acquired him a total of 2700 visits to the resort. According to the prosecutor Edward McKiernan, Stevenson had an access to Nectar card system which operates in behalf of Sainsbury, which enabled him to deposit a large number of loyalty cards into his account from 2002 to 2009. On the other hand Mr. McKiernan indicates that he spend over £ 8000 just to test whether his idea of stealing Nectar cards is practical and unnoticed by the management, then he counties to fill accounts with such point. Stevenson was a trusted employee of Stevenson and that was reason he was never suspected of any fraud by the management. He was jailed for 20 months by the court, however, was allowed to spend Christmas and New Year eve with his family.

Legal Implication

Fraud intending to make a loss or gain, it extends only to the loss and gain of the money and the property whether permanent or temporary and it means that any property either personal or real including the intangible property and things that are in action.

Policeman stole £70,000 in banks fraud to fund affair with fellow officer... but walks free from court

Article Analysis

This article includes the case of a crooked officer who steals £ 70000 from High Street banks and walk out of the court clean. PC Jamie Hillman swindle over half a dozen bands of High Street. He applied for different bank loans on account of false information. Some of his claims includes that her was a sergeant of Metropolitan Police and that he also served in military in Afghanistan. It was also included in the case that Hillman has an extra martial affair with one of his colleague at Avon and Somerset Police. Hillman defrauds a total of £ 64,300 which rose to £ 73,366.30 with interest. He also fled to Australia with the money but later returned to England for his lover. The loan he took from the bank was subjected to live his second life, according to few claims. However, Hillman indicated that he suffered from amnesia at the time he was involved in bank fraud. Also, his defendant indicated that his client has a history of Post Traumatic Stress, which resulted in a 12 months suspended sentence and was ...