With recent hikes in energy prices and rising inflation, there’s never been a better time to save money and tighten the purse strings.
08.03.2022 - 22:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A husband and wife duo used stolen Tesco stamps before ramping up spends of over £48,000 on shopping and gift cards.
Some of them had been used to buy gift vouchers from sites such as Amazon and Halfords and were even spent on Visa E cards towards a trip to Corfu.
A case at Manchester Crown Court heard that Steven Plummer, 50, from Bury, had been working for disposal company Weeshred when he noticed that the supermarket had been disposing of cards containing saver stamps. He began taking the cards from the bags before steaming off unused stamps to spend in store.
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The court was told that between the period of 7th June 2018 and 3rd September 2019, Steven had spent a total of £24,891.49 at various stores and between 31st July 2018 and 1st September 2019, partner Jamie-Lee had spent £23,135 - totalling £48,026.49. They also shared some of the gift cards with family and friends, who were unaware where how the gift cards had been purchased, and an additional total of £4,821 was spent.
Steven had given some of the stamps to Jamie-Lee, who had had retired from work and suffered from various disabilities. She spent the vouchers as an activity to ‘fill her day’, the court was told.
Prosecuting, Ms Victoria Lewis said that the cards could be spent once they had reached their maximum number of stamps, worth £1 each. On occasion, as many as 11 of the cards were used in one transaction.
The pair were eventually caught out when the supermarket giant noticed a spike in the use of the vouchers and identified them through their Tesco Clubcards they had used alongside the purchases. Police found gift cards and receipts linked to the offending
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