Sorry I stole all that money – I’ve got this illness which just forces me to spend other people’s cash…

A personal assistant blamed her ‘compulsive spending disorder’ after she used her bosses’ credit cards to spend £36,000 on designer clothes and meals at top restaurants. Hannah Joyce, 38, was a PA at travel company Le Boat, part of Travelopia where ‘no controls existed’ over company credit cards. As an assistant to Le Boat’s managing director and executive team, Joyce had access to the HSBC corporate credit cards – and used them to go on a seven year spending spree….