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Bride jailed for stealing £200,000 towards wedding | Bride jailed for stealing £200,000 towards wedding |
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A bride who stole £200,000 from her employers to pay for a lavish wedding has been jailed. | A bride who stole £200,000 from her employers to pay for a lavish wedding has been jailed. |
Part-time accounts assistant Kirsty Lane, 30, transferred the funds from Pure AV's bank account into that of her and her future husband, Graham. | Part-time accounts assistant Kirsty Lane, 30, transferred the funds from Pure AV's bank account into that of her and her future husband, Graham. |
The fraud was discovered shortly after the pair's wedding at the Great Hall at Mains, near Blackpool in January 2011. | |
Lane, of Lewis Close, Adlington, Lancashire was sentenced to 20 months in prison at Preston Crown Court. | |
She stole about £125,000 from the Leyland company, which installs audio-visual equipment, by putting in fake invoices, marking them as paid and then depositing the money into her own account. | She stole about £125,000 from the Leyland company, which installs audio-visual equipment, by putting in fake invoices, marking them as paid and then depositing the money into her own account. |
She also diverted about £75,000 through her husband's account, which she told him were savings, salary and bonuses. | She also diverted about £75,000 through her husband's account, which she told him were savings, salary and bonuses. |
'Cynical exploitation' | |
Police said Lane began working for Pure AV in May 2007 and started siphoning money into her account in December 2008. | |
A spokesman said the offences had continued until she left the company for her wedding on 23 January 2011. | |
He said a large proportion of the money had been used to fund that "lavish wedding". | |
"The money was used to pay for items including iPhone and iPad covers, compact mirrors and car keys covered in Swarovski crystals, and wedding flowers," he said. | |
Passing sentence, Judge Pamela Badley said the "modest" first amounts of cash Lane stole from the company had escalated and gone on to fund a luxury lifestyle. | |
Judge Badley said her behaviour had been "fraudulent from the outset" and told her she had taken part in a "cynical exploitation of the small company for which you worked". | |
Speaking after sentencing, Det Con Will Hogan said Lane had "abused her position of trust to steal from her employer and fund a lavish lifestyle". | |
"The consequences of her greedy and appalling behaviour have had a massive impact on this small company, which has been adversely affected by the loss of this huge sum of money," he said. | |
Graham Lane was found not guilty to one count of money laundering at Preston Crown Court on an earlier date. |