A Tasmanian women who stole money while she was a Flight Centre travel agent to repay her son’s drug debt has escaped a jail sentence.
Sally Anne Walters, 40, embezzled the money over 17 months between April 2014 and September 2015 when she was a team leader at Flight Centre’s Ulverstone branch.
Chief Justice Alan Blow accepted that Walters had stolen the money to help pay the drug debt.
Her son started using drugs at 16 and began using ice two years later, incurring “enormous drug debts that he was unable to pay”, the Chief Justice said.
The court heard Walters feared for her son’s safety after they began getting telephone calls demanding payment.
“Some ve…
Read the full article at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-04/woman-stole-from-flight-centre-to-pay-drug-debt-racked-up-by-son/9618986
