A trusted worker at a firm that sells designer clothing and trainers stole more than £100,000 of "high-end" items in just over six weeks.
Wakas Hussain was working for the END. warehouse in Washington, picking and packing online orders, when he began stealing. He claimed he had no intention to sell the goods and did it to distract himself while feeling isolated during the Covid lockdown.
Newcastle Crown Court heard suspicions were aroused in February last year after bosses became aware of a delivery to an address in South Shields which had been returned and there was no delivery note. Inquiries revealed that between December 2020 and February 2021 there had been 29 deliveries to the same address - none of which showed on the company system.
