Royal Mail manager stole £50k cash

A ROYAL Mail manager stole tens of thousands of pounds in cash from parcels going through a busy sorting office, a court has heard.

- JASON EVANS Reporter

Jonathan Brooking intercepted Special Delivery packages he had identified as containing money and took them home before banking the cash. Over the space of some 18 months he stole £50,160 from customers.

Swansea Crown Court heard Brooking was caught following an internal investigation, and when subsequently asked why he had committed the thefts the 49-year-old said he had "lost his morals".

Sophie Keegan, prosecuting, told the court Brooking joined Royal Mail in 2004 and by 2022 was a customer operations manager at the firm's Bridgend sorting office. She said Royal Mail began receiving numerous reports of Special Delivery packages containing money going missing in the Bridgend area and that as a result an investigation was launched.