Luke Blakemore had been a gaming centre manager for Zatu Games at its store in Bowthorpe when he fraudulently took a total of £15,331 between October 2024 and February 2025.

Norwich Crown Court heard the 32-year-old took gaming items from the company - the country’s biggest independent retailer of tabletop games - before reselling them to customers.

Those customers believed they were paying Zatu but were in fact paying Blakemore, who used his own "personal card machine".

Luke Blakemore stole more than £15k from Zatu Games (Image: Social media)

Richard Paterson, prosecuting, said there was "some degree of planning involved" by Blakemore who had been employed in a "position of trust" at the time.

The prosecutor said the theft and fraud offences took place over a "sustained period".

The offending was only discovered after "stock........

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