A trusted employee at a veterinary practice has been spared jail for a £36,000 fraud.
Helen Pearse was working for Northumberland-based Robson and Prescott vets when she carried out a series of frauds, conning insurance companies with fake policies for animals which didn't exist and operations which didn't take place.
Newcastle Crown Court heard she committed the offences after getting into financial difficulties and was not "living the high life". Now the 33-year-old, of Hawthorn Road, Widdrington Station, Northumberland, has been given a suspended prison sentence for the offences, which spanned 2018 to 2022.
