A 'devious' fraudster who swindled more than £55,000 the company she worked for has been ordered to pay back £63,000. Yvette Newton, who worked as a finance manager at TMJ Contractors, previously admitted fraud by abuse of position when she transferred the money from the company accounts into her own bank account.
She disguised the mange transactions as going to payees and contractors, Minshull Street Crown Court. In May last year, Newton, 54, of Pennine Vale in Shaw, was jailed for 16 months. READ MORE: “We just want to get on with our lives": Night & Day music venue back in court over row about noise Today (March 17), following a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing, she was ordered to pay back £63,413.53 to TMJ Contractors.
The court previously heard that between September 8, 2015, and 16 August, 2020, Newton spent a total of £55,309.23 from the company.
During her time working for the contracting firm, where she was earning £33,000 a year, she transferred £17,485.70 to her own Santander bank account, as well as a further £11,539.49 to a Nationwide account, also in her name.
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