Bank cashier admits fraud
A CASHIER used money from elderly customers' bank accounts to pay off some of her own debts when she got into financial difficulties.
Gillian Roystone's dishonesty at the Halifax branch in Hemsworth, near Pontefract where she was employed by an agency, came to light after one of her victims spotted a 600 withdrawal which she knew she had not made.
Carmel Pearson prosecuting told Leeds Crown Court yesterday that Roystone had also made 10 withdrawals totalling 5,400 over a six-month period from the account of a couple in their 80s and two totalling 800 from a woman in her 90s. The customers had since been reimbursed.
Roystone, 38, a mother of two of Mount Pleasant, Barnsley, pleaded guilty to fraud.
She was given a 12-month community order with 200 hours unpaid work by Judge Christopher Batty.