Desperate mum’s fraudulent mail order
Mansfield magistrates were told how Debra Timms (32), of Newlands Drive, intercepted mail and used the details to buy t-shirts, a hoover and a bed set worth £389.70.
Chris Lacey, defending, said: “Miss Timms accepts she had the items but did not open any other correspondence and she realises it was entirely inappropriate.”
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Hide AdMr Lacey said Timms had six children subject to care proceedings and had to move out of her partner’s address.
He added: “So, when she got this new property there was an element of ‘right, we need to furnish it.’”
Timms was given a conditional discharge and made to pay a £15 victim surcharge.