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Stealing
so you can steal almost 70K from the tax payer and expect only 1 year but steal 40K from an employer and you get 4-5 years... how does that work!
“The guidelines under which I operate, for an offence of this type, involving nearly £40,000 from an employer, you would be expected to receive a sentence of between four and five years.”
"fraudulently obtaining £70,000 in housing benefit over an eight-year period, which the judge took into consideration: “For an offence of that nature the sentence would be of the order of 12 months"
somethings not right here!
Free accommodation
The housing benefit fraud has given her a total of 9 years of state-provided accommodation. Perhaps extending that period seemed counter-productive :-)
But seriously, I'd be interested in the legal reason why the other fraud was more serious - possibly something to do with the number of charges or the abuse of her position. Anyone know the answer?
POCA
Will she have to repay it?
Always amazes me how silly these people are.
How many frauds are undiscovered or to difficult to prove because some simple attempt to cover them up was employed. Fancy using your own bank account??
At least for once justice was seen to be done for a smallish amount. Unusual today.
Might send a few jitters to those that have "only nicked a small amount and they won't be interested in me" brigade.
Fraud
Stealing from one's employer has long been considered more serious than other forms of fraud, because of the relationship of trust that needs to exist between employers and employees for business to work properly.
She will only serve half, and it will probably be in open conditions, a bit like butlins really.