Bank account manager spared jail despite £120,000 theft

An account manager from Barclays was yesterday spared jail despite pleading guilty to siphoning off £120,000 from the bank.

Lydia Parsons, 54, from Southview Road, Southwick admitted she was a ‘broken women’ after it had been discovered she had been stealing the money from the Southwick branch at Barclays where she worked.

She stole the money to help pay her mortgage after her husband lost his job by transferring funds to her and her husband’s joint account and her daughter’s bank account.

She was handed a 51-week sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and pay costs of £1,500, while she has agreed to return the money she stole by giving up her £90,000 pension and selling her home, the Old Bailey heard.

The judge Sally O’Neill QC said she could ‘see no public interest in breaking you further’ as she agreed to suspend the sentence.

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