Waitrose worker faces jail over gift card scam

A Waitrose employee who stole thousands of pounds from her employers by scanning gift cards to pay off a drug smuggling debt is facing jail. Cherelle Quarshie, 29, pocketed £3,500 while working on the tills at the upmarket food store in Victoria Street, Westminster in June last year. Quarshie failed to tell Waitrose about a previous conviction for smuggling drugs into prison and stole the money pay off a £1,200 to the person who told her to sneak the narcotics…