‘I hate sending women to prison’

An office manager who went on a £38,000 shopping spree on the company debit card was spared jail after a judge said: ‘I hate sending women to prison.’ Sophie Franklin, 30, helped herself to the cash when working for Circle Square Agency based in Bermondsey, southeast London. Between January 2014 and August 2016 she used the company card to splash out on designer clothes, make-up, sunglasses for her and her friends. She blew cash on holidays to Milan, Rome, the…