AN IPSWICH mum admitted to a colleague she was systematically stealing thousands from her Riverlink employer to pay a gambling debt.
Kelly Anne Mackney told a person she worked with she was “constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul” before she was caught for stealing $4669 from the Ipswich Riverlink Rivers store.
Mackney didn’t deposit money into the business’ bank account on five occasions in a two-week period in February, instead stashing the cash in her handbag.
In sentencing in in Ipswich Magistrates Court this week, the court heard Mackney had worked in the retail industry for more than 30 years without any other allegations of theft.
That was until the 44-year-old was caught with the unsealed bank deposits i…
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