Paula Reid sentenced for €4,790 payroll theft

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Paula Reid was sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 18 May 2015, to 200 hours’ community service instead of two years in jail on six theft counts, with a further two-year sentence suspended in full on six others.

Reid had pleaded guilty to stealing €4,790.97 from Hugh Burrows & Sons Ltd in Balbriggan, Co Dublin, through double wage payments made while working as the company’s payroll clerk. The court heard she had repaid the money, while her defence referred to a divorce, her son’s serious injury and stresses affecting her at the time.