An IT worker who stole laptops worth more than 12,000 from a hospital during the coronavirus pandemic has been jailed.
Neil Murthick helped himself to 27 laptops which were acquired to help staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital work from home.
Teesside Crown Court heard how the 42-year-old’s role was to get the computers set up and ready to go for NHS workers.
However Murthick, who was employed as an agency worker, was going into the store room at the hospital in Darlington and taking two or three computers at a time.
The court in Middlesbrough heard how he was then selling the laptops so he could pay off a gambling debt.
Murthick, of Inglewood Close, Darlington, admitted a charge of theft by employee.
The offence was committed over a…
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