Is this story more outrageous than the Chicken Wing burglars? Maybe it is...
But one thing is clear, that the perp is White as can be... What were the motives of this 47 year old woman who swindled £30,000 from the company she worked at and used the money to Binge-Eat? You can't make these kinds of stories up...
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/jailed-bulimia-mum-who-blew-1209909
Jailed: Bulimia mum who blew £30,000 stolen from bosses on food bingesA crooked bookkeeper who swindled £30,000 from her bosses said she blew the cash on binge-eating.
Susan Foxcroft diverted cash from the company where she worked into accounts held by her and her husband.
She then falsified accounts and forged letters in a bid to avoid being caught.
But her crimes were exposed when bankruptcy proceedings against her led to an investigation of her finances.
Foxcroft, 47, claimed that she was bulimic and had squandered the money on food, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Now she has been jailed for three-and-half years by a judge who branded her ‘thoroughly dishonest’.
The court heard that when Foxcroft was caught out she falsely claimed the firm – Welding Engineers (Mersey) Ltd, based in Newton Heath – had been dodging taxes, sparking an investigation into the company.
She also sent threatening texts to her boss, managing director Stephen Austin.
The court heard that she began stealing from the company within weeks of being spared jail for a £6,000 theft from a previous employer.
Mum-of-three Foxcroft admitted two counts of fraud.
John Richards, defending her, said: "The problem this lady has is that she’s been suffering from severe bulimia and anorexia for 16 years. She has confidence and self-image problems and most importantly, as regards the commission of this offence, she tells me she was spending upwards of £100 a day on food.
"She would eat, purge herself, eat again, make herself ill and go on and on and on like this throughout the day."
Mr Richards said that Foxcroft – who began working as a TV extra after she was sacked – did not want her husband to find out about her eating disorder, so she used the company’s money rather than her own.
Foxcroft, formerly of Crawshaw Drive, Rossendale, used banking transfers and company cheques to steal £31,302 from the company between 2009 and 2011, Alex Leach, prosecuting, told the court.
When the Insolvency Service questioned her about large deposits into her accounts she claimed that the cash payments were ‘bonuses’ – and then forged letters from Mr Austin, in a bid to back up the lie. She intercepted mail sent to Mr Austin in a desperate attempt to cover her tracks, but he found out about the fraud after a letter from the Insolvency Service got through to him.
Mr Leach said the crime had caused major financial difficulties for the firm, with four months of man hours spent looking into the fraud and staff pay frozen.
Judge Patrick Field QC said Foxcroft had shown no remorse.
He told her: "You are 47 years old and you are a thoroughly dishonest woman. I have to sentence you for two counts of fraud on your employer - each involving a gross breach of trust."
"I have plenty of sympathy for you for your eating disorder, but it constitutes no excuse whatsoever for that which you have done."
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