Let-off for woman who stole £24k

A business manager who stole £24,000 from a primary school and a nursery walked free after a judge said he didn’t think ‘the prisons should have to be provided with yet another inmate’. Chenelle Joseph-Thomas, 38, used forged cheques to pay herself £11,590.54 from St George’s Church of England primary school in Battersea, southwest London. Joseph-Thomas concocted the ‘cynical’ scam after hearing that the school’s previous business manager had ransacked their accounts in the same way. When she got another…