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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.
Trusted staff member and governor stole £100,000-worth of toner from school
Wayne David Raymond Collins
A trusted staff member and governor who stole more than £100,000 worth of printer toner while working at a West Cumbria secondary school has been spared immediate prison.
Wayne David Raymond Collins, 34, was in the grip of a gambling addiction as he pinched from St Benedictâs, in Whitehaven, while employed as a campus operations manager.
Collins was responsible for ordering printer toner for the school.
But Cumbria police were alerted by their Devon and Cornwall counterparts that he had been receiving large amounts of money by selling the toner.
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image captionWayne Collins was addicted to gambling, the court heard
A school manager and governor stole more than £100,000 of printer toner from his employers to sell online.
Wayne Collins, of Blake Close in Whitehaven, was addicted to gambling while he worked at St Benedict s High School, Carlisle Crown Court heard.
The school s business director, Mary Lowrey, said Collins had abused the position of trust he has been in .
But, because of his previous good character, his a two-year jail term was suspended for two years.
The court heard Collins, 34, had been a well liked and trusted member of the senior staffing team and a governor for four years.