‘Trusted’ worker facing jail after stealing more than £40k from three property companies and blowing it on exotic holidays and clothes
Emily Watson, 25, used company credit cards at three sister businesses in Manchester to treat herself to a string of luxury items
A GREEDY property guru is facing jail after plundering £40,000 from three housing companies and splashing it all on luxury holidays and clothes.
Shameless Emily Watson racked up staggering bills on company credit cards in just one year while treating herself to a string of expensive items.
The 25-year-old cemented herself as a “trusted employee” in the small businesses before running her racket.
She stole £29,016 from Secure Property Investments, £14,034 from Ascend Properties and £1,416 from mortgage advisers Expedite, all based in Manchester.
She admitted three counts of theft at Manchester Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
She was pictured leaving the building teary eyed dressed in black.
Precise details of her lavish spending were not revealed in court but Watson’s solicitors indicted the final amounts of money she swindled may be disputed.
She worked for the three firms, which are all sister companies, between November 10 2015 and November 10 2016.
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She used the cards to fund exotic holidays and “luxury items” including clothes, magistrates heard.
She could be hit with a custodial sentence after the case was passed from magistrates to crown for sentencing next month.
Watson, of Urmston, Manchester, was granted conditional bail.
Earlier this month mum of three Natalie Akinola was hauled before judges for swindling £100,000 from an emergency electrician firm sending them into administration and costing six people their jobs.
And in almost identical circumstances to Watson, Rebecca Waterfall spent £22,000 on company credits to fund a lavish holiday lifestyle.
The 27-year-old, of Manchester, dodged an immediate jail sentence after being sentenced to 13 months suspended for two years.
Judges heard she had paid the money back to the travel company, which she has used to whisk her boyfriend away on a trip to Australia.
