A newsagent worker stole £850 worth of scratch cards to help pay off a mounting debt, a court was told.
Jessica Mitchell, 24, worked at Select and Save on Shireoaks Row, Shireoaks, when she was caught stealing the lucrative gambling cards.
Mansfield Magistrates Court heard how the management at the shop became suspicious when the cards began going missing between February and May this year.
Mitchell, of Leeds Road, Shireoaks, had been keeping the cash from the winning cards and discarded the others.
Marjorie Kirkham-Smith, for the Crown Prosecution Service, read out a statement on behalf of the manager of the shop who felt t…
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