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Adam Everett & Ethan Davies

'Greedy' conwoman flees to Turkey after admitting £150,000 charity fraud

A conwoman boss has skipped the country and remains on the run in Turkey after stealing more than £150,000 from her charity and "effectively putting it out of business".

Donna Wells has brazenly jetted out of the UK only two days before she was due to face justice over her long-running campaign of fraud and is believed to remain abroad.

The "greedy" conwoman transferred tens of thousand of pounds out of her employers' bank account and into that of her friend's butty van, as well as swiping cash and purchasing gift vouchers for herself using the company credit card, reports the Liverpool Echo. Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon (June 5), that the 40-year-old pinched a total of £159,862 from Young Addaction Halton over a period of around 20 months in 2018 and 2019.

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