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Bingo thief jailed |
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13th May 2008 |
A bingo worker has been put in prison for eight months after using her position to steal £16,000, it has been revealed.
Emma Meechan, of Banbary, Oxford, took advantage of a computer glitch to pilfer £16,178 over 13 months as a cashier at the Gala Bingo where she worked.
She stole the money from July 2006 to August 2007 after discovering that some of the hall's Buzzcards – plastic cards that players can use to load money and store their winnings – had been wrongly credited with £167,000 because of the error.
The Banbary Guardian reports that Meechan was in cahoots with Colin Ricalton, manager of the hall at the time. He had also stolen £23,000 and was sentenced at an earlier hearing, after the pair were caught following an anonymous tip off.
According to the paper, Jonathan Stone, prosecutor, said: "Quite literally, huge discrepancies were discovered. It was a computer glitch which the employee took advantage of, not something she engineered."
Meanwhile, a man from Birmingham, who claimed more than £50,000 in benefits, was jailed for a year after he failed to declare that his wife had won £60,000 on a bingo site.
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