Web Gambler
Stole to Repay 26,000 UK Pound Loss
As reported by the Guardian:
"A clerk at a bureau de change was jailed
yesterday for stealing more than £26,000
in just four weeks to meet debts she and her
boyfriend ran up by gambling on the internet.
Cindy Streets fiddled computer records to try
to hide the theft.
"She
and her boyfriend, Paul Hocking, described at
Exeter crown court as a gambling addict, spent
hours placing increasingly large amounts of
money on online poker tables and betting exchanges,
hoping in vain to recoup the losses.
"But
after a month her bosses at Lets Go Travel noticed
that £2,000 in foreign currency was missing
and her scam was uncovered.
"Streets,
21, of Exeter, who admitted three offences of
false accounting and asked for the theft of
£26,218.08 to be taken into consideration,
was jailed for 12 months..."
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