meant Lichfield District Council
accidentally transferred £52,000 into her account instead of paying
Bromford Housing Association.

Bubbly: Hutchings spent £9,000 at a Birmingham shopping centre after the money was accidentally transferred

Saving: The 23-year old from Lichfield, Staffordshire, also put £40,000 into an investment account

The
council managed to stop a further £44,500 being transferred into her
account and desperately tried to trace her to explain the error.

But by the time they caught Hutchings, she had spent more than £9,000 during a shopping spree at Birmingham’s Bull- ring centre.

The court heard that she and her partner bought designer shoes, jeans, sunglasses and other luxuries.

Hutchings,
the mother of a young daughter, will face a further investigation under
the Proceeds of Crime Act relating to the £40,000 she transferred into
an investment account. Phillip Bradley, defending, said she admitted toplace of or in conjunction with a compressed air system to provide supervisory nitrogen gas in place of air for dry pipe and pre-action fire sprinkler systems.

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