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Gran sells home to pay back £115k she stole from Norfolk charity

A great-grandma who stole £115,000 from a charity has been forced to sell her home to repay the money.

Pamela Bent took the money while working as the treasurer of the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (Sharp), based near Hunstanton, in Norfolk.

The then 65-year-old avoided jail but received a two-year suspended sentence on the condition she sold her home to repay what she took.

A director for Sharp said the crime nearly shut the organisation but it was now “on the up” after the money had been repaid.

Bent was a trustee at Sharp, external, which runs the largest independent archaeological projects in Britain.

She had previously admitted four charges, including fraud by abuse of position and falsifying documents.


BBC News

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