A payroll supervisor is facing jail after fraudulently paying himself more than £30,000.
Steven Woodford who worked at The Cambian Group, a firm providing care for children with special needs, made 27 payments to himself, totalling £32,645, between March 2017 and August this year.
The Evening Standard reported that Victoria Murphy, prosecuting, told Westminster magistrates’ court the scam was revealed when employees who had left the company did not receive money they were owed. Instead, Woodford placed the payments into his own bank account.
Woodford pleaded guilty to a single charge of fraud by abuse of position. He has been freed until sentencing. However, the Magistrate warned that he could face a jail sentence due to the seriousness of the offence.
