Refund fraudster Patricia Phillips admits Sussex and Essex spree | Braintree and Witham Times
Patricia Phillips targeted Tesco stores across Sussex by claiming refunds for items she had never bought. It involved her going into a shop such as Tesco Extra in Shoreham, taking bedding off the shelves, slashing it or damaging it inside packaging, then taking it to a customer service desk to claim cash as if she had purchased a faulty item. At Lewes Crown Court it was revealed she has a 25-year career in making similar dodgy claims. It was revealed Phillips is “known to courts across Southern England” over her “brazen dishonesty”. She admitted criminal damage and fraud rel...