A bar worker stole cash from a social club's safe then claimed the owners were framing him as part of an insurance scam when he was caught.
Matthew Euers was acting as manager of Southport Railway Club when he was caught on camera pocketing the monies. Thousands of pounds in takings were found to be missing in total.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon, Tuesday, that the 36-year-old had initially been employed a member of bar staff but became "de facto manager" when the previous incumbent of the role left in early November 2019. Kenneth Grant, prosecuting, described how the owners then discovered that around £4,000 in takings were "unaccounted for".
