Worker stole £21,000 to fund his addictions

A COCAINE and gambling addict stole more than £21,000 from his employers after paying company funds into his own account.

- PHILIP DEWEY

He did this by changing the pay details of agency employees to that of his own bank accounts.

Connor Hickman, 24, was employed as a payroll manager for Bargoed-based Nos Da Healthcare and carried out the fraud between October 17, 2022, and June 27, 2023.

He was a trusted employee who had access to company bank accounts and payroll details.

But a sentencing hearing on May 14 heard the defendant "used and abused" his position by changing bank account details of agency employees to his own. He also created bogus payslips and invoices in order to hide his tracks.