Warning To Collectors To Stay On Right Side Of Law ?

[Mike]

you be good now or......

Hundreds of rare Elvis Presley records collected by a woman who stole more than £500,000 from her employer will be auctioned off and used as compensation, a court ruled today.

Julie Wall's vast collection of signed Elvis memorabilia will go under the hammer after a recorder at Lincoln Crown Court ruled the 46-year-old should repay her debts to the North Kesteven District Council.

Wall, of Rippon Drive, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, stole a total of £597,963.97 over a 10-year period when she worked as a cashier for the council.

The court was told that she pocketed cash collected from council parking meters, taking up to £10,000 every month.

Her role at the council, where she had worked for more than 30 years, was to deposit takings from the parking meters into the council's bank account. But, for a decade, she helped herself to the coins, which she would swap into banknotes and smuggle out of the office.

She would then spend her spare time trawling collectors' fairs and specialist shops across the country, buying up rare recordings and foreign pressings of Elvis songs to satiate an obsession she had developed over many years.

Prosecutor James Dennison said Wall's crime was only discovered in July last year when an internal audit revealed that more than £500,000 had gone missing from council funds.

full story and source

https://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNew...D=2&newsID=2203

Edited January 8, 2006 by mike-

[steve z]

you be good now or......

Hundreds of rare Elvis Presley records collected by a woman who stole more than £500,000 from her employer will be auctioned off and used as compensation, a court ruled today.

Julie Wall's vast collection of signed Elvis memorabilia will go under the hammer after a recorder at Lincoln Crown Court ruled the 46-year-old should repay her debts to the North Kesteven District Council.

Wall, of Rippon Drive, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, stole a total of £597,963.97 over a 10-year period when she worked as a cashier for the council.

The court was told that she pocketed cash collected from council parking meters, taking up to £10,000 every month.

Her role at the council, where she had worked for more than 30 years, was to deposit takings from the parking meters into the council's bank account. But, for a decade, she helped herself to the coins, which she would swap into banknotes and smuggle out of the office.

She would then spend her spare time trawling collectors' fairs and specialist shops across the country, buying up rare recordings and foreign pressings of Elvis songs to satiate an obsession she had developed over many years.

Prosecutor James Dennison said Wall's crime was only discovered in July last year when an internal audit revealed that more than £500,000 had gone missing from council funds.

full story and source

https://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNew...D=2&newsID=2203

A similar thing ,as we recall ,happened to a well known N.S. DJ a few years ago over here also

[Guest in town Mikey]

you be good now or......

Hundreds of rare Elvis Presley records collected by a woman who stole more than £500,000 from her employer will be auctioned off and used as compensation, a court ruled today.

Julie Wall's vast collection of signed Elvis memorabilia will go under the hammer after a recorder at Lincoln Crown Court ruled the 46-year-old should repay her debts to the North Kesteven District Council.

Wall, of Rippon Drive, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, stole a total of £597,963.97 over a 10-year period when she worked as a cashier for the council.

The court was told that she pocketed cash collected from council parking meters, taking up to £10,000 every month.

Her role at the council, where she had worked for more than 30 years, was to deposit takings from the parking meters into the council's bank account. But, for a decade, she helped herself to the coins, which she would swap into banknotes and smuggle out of the office.

She would then spend her spare time trawling collectors' fairs and specialist shops across the country, buying up rare recordings and foreign pressings of Elvis songs to satiate an obsession she had developed over many years.

Prosecutor James Dennison said Wall's crime was only discovered in July last year when an internal audit revealed that more than £500,000 had gone missing from council funds.

full story and source

https://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNew...D=2&newsID=2203

thang 'ver mush

[Supercorsa]

thang 'ver mush

Must be some Country Bumpkin saying!

[Soulsmith]

Been going on for 10 years?

The warning here is not to trust councils with our money.

Col.

[steve z]

Been going on for 10 years?

The warning here is not to trust councils with our money.

Col.

Hi Col,Don't I know it being from Bury..........£10 million Got it back eventually ,but with no interest ie lost about a million

[pikeys dog]

This story doesn't suprise me as I used to have a lot of dealings with local authority types.

I used to work in internal Security for a company that was tied into a deal with the council (investigating fraud and other incidents like accidents, fires, assaults)

The Council handed over running of their leisure facilities and our company ran them as a profit making business - giving them a small percentage of the takings and allowing them to run special deals for the usual concessionary groups - low paid, unemployed, 'womens' groups and the like.

We took over the running of their Golf clubs and one of the members of staff told us that other members of staff were on the rob - he'd reported this to the council about six months previously and they'd swept it under the rug.

To cut a long story short we set up covert cctv and caught one of them red handed.

The following three months takings were £10K up on the previous years and that was after poor weather conditions.

Dread to think what they actually got away with.