Headteacher cleared of raiding school coffers to fund New York trip

  A headteacher accused of raiding her school coffers to pay for a trip to New York was cleared of fraud. Melanie Rose, 46, was said to have used the account at the Ben Jonson Primary School in Mile End, east London, as her piggy bank for criminal expenses claims for more than three years. She bought a £2,388 Apple laptop as a Christmas present for her partner and spent £1,077 on a room at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan,…