Manager stole £10k from bank

Wednesday 9th April 2008, 2:29PM BST.

A FORMER bank manager has been sent to prison for 15 months for stealing nearly £10,000 from her employer.

Sharon McCarthy, 37, had been an employee of the Royal Bank of Scotland International, trading as NatWest, for 14 years when she was found to have transferred money into a variety of accounts to pay off personal debts.

One of her responsibilities had been the prevention of staff fraud. She pleaded guilty to one count of theft, which included four transactions totalling £8,475.85 in the period between 1 November 2004 and 31 October 2006, as well as a second count of obtaining £1,500 in cash by way of deception.

McCarthy also admitted money laundering in respect of two transactions included in the one count of theft. The sentence passed down for each count was 15 months, to be served concurrently.