A school manager has avoided jail after stealing more than £100,000 worth of printer toner and selling it online to fund his gambling addiction.
Wayne Collins, 34, was working as the Campus Operations Manager at St Benedict's High School in Whitehaven, Cumbria, at the time.
Carlisle Crown Court heard he secretly made £117,994 between January 2013 and February 2019 by selling the secondary school's printer ink online.
In his role he was responsible for ordering school supplies but staff had 'complained bitterly' over the years about the lack of toner.
A judge heard Collins had 'a gambling addiction which had consumed him' and 'bitterly' regretted the theft which he admitted. Collins, of Whitehaven, was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence because of his previous good character.