Travel agent who stole 83k from her employer escapes jail
A travel agency manager who stole almost £83,000 from her company has been spared a jail term so that she can keep her new job in the travel industry.
Sally Lane, 39, ran the currency exchange desk at Bowen Travel in Aldridge, in the Midlands, but pocketed cash from deals and treated herself to holidays and other luxuries.
According to the Express and Star, Lane ran the currency exchange desk for more than two years before the fraud was discovered.
At Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday, a judge said Lane, from Walsall, would become a “burden on the state” if she went to jail.
Pleading guilty to the theft, she will repay the money at a rate of £800 a month.
The court heard that she has since got another job in the travel industry, which she would lose if she was locked up.
Judge Michael Dudley said if she went to prison she would find it very difficult to work again and would become a burden on the state for the rest of her working life.
He gave her a a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and 300 hours of unpaid work.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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