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Article: Weight pills 'made me steal [pounds sterling]220,000'; Boss escapes jail as judge agrees slimming drug affected her mental state.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 13, 2001
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Byline: NEIL SEARS
A MANAGER stole [pounds sterling]220,000 from her firm after becoming addicted to slimming pills, a court heard yesterday.
Financial sales expert Elizabeth Rudd blamed the side-effects of the amphetamine-like pills - which failed to reduce her weight from 14-stone but gave her the energy to work long hours - for her eight years of thieving from company accounts.
The Pearl Assurance area chief had pleaded guilty to 22 counts of theft, 13 counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception and five charges of false accounting dating from 1992 until last year.
Rudd, 42, was spared jail after the judge at Teesside Crown ...