Booker ‘did the restaurant for £15k’

A restaurant worker has admitted fleecing a City eaterie out of nearly £15,000. Vaida Puskepalyte, 30, defrauded the Don Restaurant & Bistro in St Swithins Lane by paying deposits left by customers for private functions into her own bank account. Puskepalyte pocketed a total of £14,750 over a period of nine months, City of London Magistrates’ Court heard. Puskepalyte, of Ripley Road, Belvedere, southeast London, admitted fraud by false representation. Judge Tan Ikram committed her to Inner London Crown Court…