A Royal Mail employee from Lancashire stole £6,000 worth of items over a period of six months while working, a court heard. Court documents reveal that Laura Whalley, 38, stole more than 8,000 postal packets between December 30, 2019 and June 18, 2020. The documents state that Ms Whalley committed a ‘breach of trust’ and that there was ‘no regard for the recipients of the items’. She has been ordered to pay £2,903 in compensation and was given a suspended prison sentence for the thefts - which took place in South Cumbria. Nigel Nelson, one of the many people who reported post going astray, believed the sentence should have been tougher.
A Royal Mail employee stole £6,000 worth of items over a period of six months while working in south Cumbria, a court heard. Court documents reveal that Laura Whalley, 38, stole more than 8,000 postal packets between December 30, 2019 and June 18, 2020. The documents state that Ms Whalley committed a ‘breach of trust’ and that there was ‘no regard for the recipients of the items’. She has been ordered to pay £2,903 in compensation and was given a suspended prison sentence. Nigel Nelson, one of the many people who reported post going astray, believed the sentence should have been tougher. “I don’t think the sentence is enough. It maybe should have been custodial because theft is theft,” he said.