From The Daily Telegraph 10 Feb 2012
AN ASDA worker who stole £130,000 from the supermarket was discovered with trinkets she had bought in sprees on shopping channels.
Sandra Norris, 58, has been ordered to pay back just £14,000 after spending most of the money on the QVC television channel.
When police raided her home they found almost £80,000 in vouchers, about £6,600 in cash and piles of unopened goods, including perfume,
jewellery, clothing and alcohol.
Norris, who has worked at Asda in Totton, Southampton, for 20 years, took customer’s vouchers, increased their value, and pocketed the
cash difference from the tills. It was her job to empty tills, cash up and put the sums in the store computer system.
Norris would sometimes double the value of coupons customers used to pay for their shopping, Southampton Crown Court heard.
She was arrested after an in-house investigation into discrepancies in the store’s accounts.
Norris was jailed for 28 months after admitting stealing £700 and a charge of fraud by abusing her position of trust.
She returned to court for a confiscation hearing. Judge Peter Ralls QC was told that she benefited by £131,670 through her criminal conduct.
Norris had realisable assets of £14,394 which included £5,000 of goods bought from the shopping channel and was ordered
to pay £14,394 with 10 months in default.
AN ASDA worker who stole £130,000 from the supermarket was discovered with trinkets she had bought in sprees on shopping channels.
Sandra Norris, 58, has been ordered to pay back just £14,000 after spending most of the money on the QVC television channel.
When police raided her home they found almost £80,000 in vouchers, about £6,600 in cash and piles of unopened goods, including perfume,
jewellery, clothing and alcohol.
Norris, who has worked at Asda in Totton, Southampton, for 20 years, took customer’s vouchers, increased their value, and pocketed the
cash difference from the tills. It was her job to empty tills, cash up and put the sums in the store computer system.
Norris would sometimes double the value of coupons customers used to pay for their shopping, Southampton Crown Court heard.
She was arrested after an in-house investigation into discrepancies in the store’s accounts.
Norris was jailed for 28 months after admitting stealing £700 and a charge of fraud by abusing her position of trust.
She returned to court for a confiscation hearing. Judge Peter Ralls QC was told that she benefited by £131,670 through her criminal conduct.
Norris had realisable assets of £14,394 which included £5,000 of goods bought from the shopping channel and was ordered
to pay £14,394 with 10 months in default.
I wonder if she is the one who rings up to say that she has record number of Kipling bags or record number of Indigo Moon jackets??
