Jail Inevitable for Bingo Mad Fraudster

A housing chief who was addicted to bingo was recently told that a jail term would more than likely be inevitable. The fifty year old grandmother lied to socially need people and even key workers such as nurses and firemen in order to pocket more than £63,000 to fuel her passion for bingo. Jeannette Harris resorted to crime just brief weeks after commencing her job at Crown Estate Commissioners.

Her modus operandi was to tell the tenants that they had to pay deposits for the much needed accommodation and then insisted that their rentals had to be paid to her in cash which she used to pay for her bingo mad habits. She then cooked the books and was only found out when one of the tenants she bullied, complained and took her superiors to a tribunal. This farce ended when a woman whom she had taken money from was informed that her rent was many hundreds of pounds in arrears and an investigation was launched. There were nineteen people who came forward and made statements that she had conned them but her former bosses think there were probably as many as fifty people that she targeted, and they estimate that she probably pocketed around £100,000.