The police might chase it up, but I'm pretty certain you still need to go to a civil court to get your money afterwards. I don't know how much the CPSs evidence (had they prosecuted, successfully or otherwise) would help and whether you could gain access to seized documents or use the conclusions of CPS experts. Presumably a criminal conviction wouldn't require proof of exactly how much money was involved in total anyway (as long as it could be proven there was some). BTW, your link to the Sunday Mirror article seems to go to an error page now.