Crooked accounts clerk walks free after court hears she has cancer

An accounts assistant who swiped £19,000 from a healthcare business by pretending she was refunding patients has been spared jail after a judge was told she has cancer. Victoria Hegarty, 36, used the company’s Worldpay account to deposit the fraudulent refunds into her three separate accounts. Hegarty worked at the Rila Institute of Health Sciences as an accounts assistant on a zero-hours contract, invoicing the company as and when she worked for them. While checking company bank statements Rila director…