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A FORMER postal worker who scammed her employers was spared prison on her 60th birthday.
Weeping Alma Scragg was given a community sentence after Liverpool Crown Court heard she had lied because of her own incompetence.
Prosecutor John Gibson said Scragg, of Wrayburn Close, Edge Hill, had entered false information into a Post Office system saying cheques totalling £8,834 had been cashed.
When they failed to arrive at the company’s central office they issued an error notice, but again the married mum tried to pretend a cheque was on the way.
She pleaded guilty to falsifying an official document on August 3, 2006, but insisted she had never financially benefited and had simply been covering up a mistake.
Scragg’s barrister Teresa Loftus said her client, who turned 60 yesterday, had paid for other shortfalls out of her own pocket.
She added: “This was a considerable sum of more than £8,000.
“She panicked.”
Judge Adrian Lyon sentenced Scragg, who now works for Asda to a six-month community order with supervision.
