A senior care worker stole between £12,000 and £15,000 from people with mental disabilities in a “gross breach of trust”, York Crown Court heard. Beth Wallace admitted setting up internet banking for the accounts of five people for whom she was a care supervisor when working for Mencap in York. She pleaded guilty to five charges of fraud in abuse of position by transferring money from the victims’ bank accounts to her own between September 16, 2016, and December 20, 2016. The prosecution claims she may have taken £15,340. She claims she took £12,000. Wallace, 55, who gave her address at an earlier hearing as a retirement complex on Melton Road, Waltham on the Wolds, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, will be sentenced on April 12.
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