Foreign Office clerk who nicked 2k faces sentence

A former Foreign Office civil servant who used her official credit card to withdraw more than £2,000 from a cashpoint machine is facing jail. Laura Perry, 36, admitted theft but claimed she muddled up the card, which is black, with her own red Santander card. She told jurors that she has paid back most of the outstanding debt. The civil servant was suspended in March 2017 and resigned her post in July that same year, the day before an employment…