A manager of Barclay’s bank has been given a suspended 51-week sentence having been caught stealing £17,700.
Janet Wylde of Clementhorpe Rd in Dagenham, East London, siphoned the money from a Mr Jackson’s account and deposited it in her daughter’s account. Her daughter was suffering from serious debt problems and had moved in with Ms Wylde after her home had been repossessed, Southwark Crown Court heard.The 56-year-old’s sentence will be suspended for two years and she will have to complete 200 hours of community service. When handing down the sentence, Judge Howard QC said: “You have let your family and yourself down and there is no doubt in my mind that it requires that I pass a sentence for imprisonment.”However, the fact that Ms Wylde cared for the children of her daughter and her business partner, along with the unlikelihood of her re-offending, led to his decision to suspend the sentence. Explaining, he said: “You are a woman of unimpeachable character. You and your daughter got into serious financial trouble and you were thrashing around trying to get out of that and this led you to commit the offence.”Mitigating, defence lawyer Matthew Butt said: "The offending is totally out of character. She has worked all her life, rising to the role of bank manager and has managed to bring up her daughter alone." Mr Butt added that Ms Wylde had already lost her job as a result of the case.This latest piece of negative press for the high-street bank continues their week of bad publicity: first it was fined £1.1 million by the FSA for breaching rules on handling client money, then it was fined another £7.7 million for failings in advice offered to customers, and then it had to close its branch-based financial advice service putting over 1000 jobs at risk.Manchester debt firm is liquidated owing creditors over £2.2m
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