Civil servant went on gambling spree with your money

A Foreign Office civil servant went on a month-long gambling binge with government credit cards, a court heard. Laura Perry, 36, allegedly spent nearly £20,000 on her Foreign Office bank cards with the online casino SkyBet.com, clocking up nearly 250 transactions over 30 days. The admin assistant was given the cards to book travel tickets, pay for accommodation and make payments for other costs incurred by government works and visiting dignitaries. Perry, who worked on the Jordon and Lebanon desk…