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Topps Tile firm boss tracks down thief Lee Fisher through eBay auction website

The manager of a top tile company backed a winner when he was hunting the thief taken items from the Ashford store.

The executive decided to check out eBay sales within a 10-mile radius of the Topps Tiles store in Hall Avenue.

And there he discovered items up for offer and being sold by someone with the name “Freddie12345Lee”...

The eBay logo
The eBay logo

It was then – Canterbury Crown Court was told – that he remembered an assistant working at the showroom called Lee Fisher who had a horse called Freddie!

Police raided Fisher’s home in Seaview Gardens, Warden Bay, Sheerness and discovered £2,000 in cash.

The 27-year-old, who has a previous conviction for stealing from an employee 10 years earlier, admitted stealing tiles and tile cutters worth £4,500.

The court heard how Fisher had been working at the Sittingbourne branch but had been transferred to Ashford when a colleague went sick.

It was then that the branch manager became concerned about missing stock and decided to turn detective and began searching the Internet-based online auction house and discovered 108 stolen items had been sold.

Canterbury Crown Court
Canterbury Crown Court

Fisher’s barrister Paul Green claimed he had been “bullied “ at work and forced into joining in with the thefts – claiming his role had been to sell the items on Ebay.

But the court heard that Fisher had given a number of different accounts aboutthe breach of trust thefts.

He was given a 12-month jail sentence suspended for two years and ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work.


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