Katie Woodfinden [2019] EWCA Crim 1792

The appellant pleaded guilty to theft and was sentenced to 2 years and 4 months’ imprisonment. She was the financial controller for a small company and was found to have made payments into her personal account rather than to the companies who had submitted invoices. It was accepted she had received a little under £38,000.

Held: this was a sustained series of deliberate acts of dishonesty, carried out irrespective of the risk to the business and causing severe consequential loss to the business. The Recorder was right to reach a total period of 28 months. The appeal was dismissed.