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.
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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.
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