A payroll supervisor who siphoned off more than £30,000 from a firm providing care for children with special needs is potentially facing prison.
Steven Woodford, 42, abused his position at Hammersmith-based The Cambian Group for more than a year to plunder colleagues’ wages.
Woodford made 27 payments to himself, totalling £32,645, between March 2017 and August this year.
Victoria Murphy, prosecuting, told Westminster magistrates’ court the scam was exposed when staff who had left the company realised they had not received money they were owed.
“The payments had been placed into the bank account of the defendant,” she said.
Yesterday Woodford, of Bethnal Green, pleaded guilty to a single charge of fraud by abuse of position.
Magistrate Kirsty Walker freed him until sentencing at Isleworth crown court, but warned that he could face prison because of the seriousness of the offence.
