A woman who raised hundreds of pounds to put towards the funeral of her next-door neighbour "should have been jailed" according to the victim's daughter.
Kelly Hails felt the community order handed to Leanne Fox was too lenient after £590 raised disappeared without a trace.
38-year-old Fox, of Larkspur in Gateshead, was sentenced to a 12 month community order with 50 hours unpaid work after she pleaded guilty to theft.
