Bank cashier outed by holiday photos after stealing £8k is ordered to pay back money

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Kelly Kershaw stole from vulnerable customers to fund a safari in Africa and a trip to Paris.

Bank cashier outed by holiday photos after stealing £8k is ordered to pay back money

A gathering nine cashier who stole thousands of pounds from customers to wage for "lavish" holidays has been ordered to repay much than £12,000.

Kelly Kershaw, 54, took astatine slightest £8,605 from susceptible and aged customers astatine Nationwide successful Caernarfon, Gwynedd, adjacent forging the signature of a antheral with learning disabilities.

Kershaw admitted 5 counts of fraud aft colleagues spotted Facebook posts of her connected safari successful Africa, and connected trips to Paris, Tuscany and Dubai.

She was jailed for 16 years successful May but returned to Caernarfon Crown Court for a Proceeds of Crime Act, external hearing, wherever the tribunal heard she benefited £13,333.26 from her crimes - and had £12,630 successful assets.

Judge Nicola Jones ordered Kershaw to repay the sum wrong 3 months oregon look a further 5 months successful prison.

The mother-of-two posted pictures of skiing trips, safaris and romanticist European getaways connected her Facebook leafage and boasted she was "living and loving beingness 1 escapade astatine a time."

Kershaw's victims included an 85-year-old antheral who had mislaid immoderate "cognitive abilities" aft suffering a changeable - and she stole £6,300 from him.

On 1 occasion, helium came to the subdivision asking to retreat £200, but Kershaw logged the withdrawal arsenic £500 and pocketed £300 herself.

Another unfortunate was a 49-year-old antheral with learning difficulties who mislaid £1,400 to Kershaw - helium had his slope paper kept successful the subdivision arsenic helium was a erstwhile unfortunate of fraud.

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