COURT TOLD OF MUM'S SHAME OVER STEALING FROM HER EMPLOYER

Driven to theft by gambling debts

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

A MOTHER of two stole more than £10,000 from her employer after building up "huge" gambling debts during the pandemic.

Nottingham Crown Court heard how, since she was caught stealing, Katarzyna Zolnierz "has been too embarrassed and ashamed" to tell her family about her criminal conduct.

The 35-year-old siphoned the cash from customer payments made to the Bilborough firm where she worked as a business administrator.

Now she has been spared an immediate prison term as custody would have a big impact on her young children, for whom she is the sole carer.

Imposing a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, Recorder Bajraj Bhattia KC said: "You had a position of trust and you abused that position of trust.