Accounts boss ‘fleeced HP Sauce company out of £500,000’

An accounts manager swindled the food company that makes HP Sauce out of more than £500,000, a court heard. Asha Patel, 42, was employed as an accounts payable manager at Westmill Foods, which owns brands including Amoy Lea & Perrins and Patak’s. But she used her position to defraud the company out of huge sums of cash over a two year period, it was claimed. The fraud allegedly ran between 15 December 2017 and 3 December 2019, Highbury Corner Magistrates’…