Woman spared jail after stealing more than £25k from PO

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Woman spared jail after stealing more than £25k while working in village post office

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A WOMAN who stole more than £25,000 after being put in charge of a village outreach post office has walked away from court with a suspended jail sentence.

Elizabeth Houghton ran the outreach facility alongside her village shop at Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, near Grantham, after the local post office was shut as a result of a wave of closures across the county announced in December 2007.

Lincoln Crown Court heard Houghton took around £500 a week from the Post Office for nearly a year before auditors arrived to carry out a spot check.

Dominic Shelley, prosecuting, said that more than £15,000 has already been paid back and the Newark Post Office owner is planning civil action against Houghton.

Houghton, 52, of Worthington Lane, Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, admitted theft of £25,177 from the Royal Mail Group between March 2009 and January this year.

She was given a nine-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, with £250 prosecution costs and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work.

Recorder Christopher Donnellan QC told her she had only been saved from immediate custody by references given by members of her local community.

[stokes11eg]

Crime realy does pay. Instead of Community service, she should be made to work as a postie.

[DGP1]

Crime realy does pay. Instead of Community service, she should be made to work as a postie.

When I first read your post I thought you'd written 'prossie' ................although we do spend most of our time getting f***ed over by everyone

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Crime realy does pay. Instead of Community service, she should be made to work as a postie.

Oh No - what have you done - Thats going to part of Big Dave's "Big Society" push now.

We'll all be subbed by giro dodgers, and tea leaves.

[stokes11eg]

Crime realy does pay. Instead of Community service, she should be made to work as a postie.

When I first read your post I thought you'd written 'prossie' ................although we do spend most of our time getting f***ed over by everyone

instead of going to the naughty room, have you thought about one of those rehab clinics for sex addicts? A la Michael Douglas.

[stokes11eg]

Crime realy does pay. Instead of Community service, she should be made to work as a postie.

Oh No - what have you done - Thats going to part of Big Dave's "Big Society" push now.

We'll all be subbed by giro dodgers, and tea leaves.

Oh, the answers I could give to this, but I'll stick with Big D.s society push. WASSAT? I've stopped listening to that pair and their waffling on now. But at least I know from the video BIg B is still alive and kicking. Send him back home.

[BELIAL]

Thank f**k tinky winky fled the scene