A woman who stole more than £437,000 from her employers and spent it on a building a new house and skiing holidays has been jailed for five years.
Emma Rhodes used her position as financial controller for a company to siphon off the cash over two and a half years. She even wrote bogus emails to show to her partner that she was doing well in her job and was entitled to £89,000 bonuses to stop him becoming suspicious about their new-found wealth.
The 37-year-old "lived in cloud cuckoo land" and blew the money on an extravagant lifestyle which included an £80,000 Range Rover and a £10,000 Rolex watch, a court heard.
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