National Theatre finance manager spared jail for expenses fraud

A financial manager at the National Theatre who skimmed off over £25,000 in bogus expenses claims has escaped jail because she has two children. South African Belinda Venter, 42, had been employed for 12 years by the theatre and was a trusted employee, Inner London crown court heard. Shekinah Anson, prosecuting, said: ‘Between 2011 and 2014 she claimed false expenses claims which came to a total of just over  £25,000. ‘The total figure was £25,600.98. ‘She was the commercial operations…