Thieving postie faces jail

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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A POSTAL worker who stole nearly 300 letters will be sentenced next month.

Lorna Bland, 26, from Lee Mount, Halifax, pleaded guilty to theft and delaying the post.

The thefts took place between December 6, 2006, and August 25, 2010.

Prosecutor Charles Watson called the theft of 284 postal packets a "significant breach of trust".

Malcolm Nowell, defending, said: "Clearly custody cannot be ruled out".

Bland will be sentenced on February 23 at Calderdale Magistrates Court.

[feduppostie]

another one of these

a "significant breach of trust".


that's putting it mildly

hope she gets jail

[Lounge Lizard]

another one of these

a "significant breach of trust".


that's putting it mildly

hope she gets jail

yes, and with hard labour as a reminder of what her previous employment could have been.

[BELIAL]

Kin ell ,if you can be jailed for a significant breach of trust there must be a few liberals crapping themselves

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Kin ell ,if you can be jailed for a significant breach of trust there must be a few liberals crapping themselves

Ah but they'll successfully use the SS defence, even if they cant their mates in the Judiciary will make sure everything is OK.

[dvbuk55]

It's certainly an odd case, 300 letters in 3 and a half years, it's very specific and very low for such a long period of time.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

It's certainly an odd case, 300 letters in 3 and a half years, it's very specific and very low for such a long period of time.

Actually as Halifax is not that far from me - we are all part of CleckhuddersFax after all I have been able to find out a bit more background from both anonymous sources on here and posties who live in Halifax but work at Huddersfield and even a manager who knows many that work there who was talking too someone about it.

Apparently they actually found nearly 7000 items of mail found in her house, it filled 3 yorkies. The 300 she was charged over were seemingly the opened and empty packets that they found, It probably made the charge of theft easier to prosecute, rather than the going for lesser offence of delaying/tampering with mail for the full amount .

The saddening thing is the impact it had on innocent people working in the office, never mind the initial suspicion that some must have been under at the start of the investigation, but as an office many people had to spend weeks re-delivering the unopened stuff and there was even once incident where one poor postwoman was cornered in a garden by an angry resident who thought she was the person that had been stealing their mail.

[feduppostie]

well that all puts a different perspective on it

not 300 items at all then

still hope she gets jail

[TrueBlueTerrier]

She was sentenced today - apparently she got 4 months - will post a news story when and if one appears

[andy2007]

Thanks for the update Teebs.

[paulcasey72]

Try she stole 6000 items in 6 years, Royal Mail only declared half of the items.....Do I feel a case of embarrasment prehaps.....???????????? She deserves longer then 4 months.......