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Article: Shop worker fiddled [pounds sterling]3,414.
- Article from:
- Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2006
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A SHOP worker set up bogus refunds and put the cash in his bank account because his mum and dad wouldn't give him money from his college fund.
Promising student Paul Reed, 18, admitted helping himself to [pounds sterling]3,414.79 from Curry's electrical store in Trimdon Street, Sunderland.
Sunderland Magistrates Court heard yesterday how the intelligent teenager swindled the electrical giant by processing made-up refunds on to his card, then transferring them in to his own bank account, while he worked there part-time last year.
Prosecutor Paul Anderson told the court Reed, of Montrose Gardens, Humbledon Hill, made 13 transactions between March ...