Don't miss out on the big stories from Manchester's courts with our weekly newsletter A grandmother who stole high-end mobile phones from the courier firm she worked for was “pressured” into doing so by a “loan shark” she is now hiding from, a court heard.
Julie Birchenough, 56, who was a security manager tasked with preventing thefts by staff, swiped 24 phones worth around £24,000.
She was eventually caught out after suspicious bosses installed covert cameras in her office at the base where she worked. READ MORE: Woman cut from car after horror smash with two people taken to hospital At her sentencing hearing, she claimed she had been put under ‘significant pressure’ to steal them in a bid to wipe a £1,000 back-street loan that she was
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