Let-off for crooked Foreign Office clerk

A former Foreign Office civil servant who used her official credit card to steal more than £2,000 has avoided jail. Laura Perry, 36, admitted stealing taxpayers’ money but claimed she muddled up the governmental 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 tribunal…