Crooked HMRC worker stole £200k of taxpayers cash to pay off debt and mortgage

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A crooked HMRC worker who swiped almost £200,000 of taxpayer cash to clear debts and pay off her mortgage is facing jail. Joanne Connell, 37, plundered huge sums of money while employed in a government department in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire.

She used members of the public's details to create fake credit notes and put the money into her own bank account. Her fraud continued while she was working from home on a work issued laptop.

She also helped herself to money while off sick with meningitis and a bleed on the brain which she claimed impacted her memory.

An internal probe revealed fraudulent activity and brazen Connell told investigators she had used £100,000 to clear debts and siphoned a further £80,000 towards her mortgage.