A County Tyrone girl who stole £1.9m from her employers to fund her “luxurious way of life” has been given a five-and-a-half-year jail sentence.
Julie McBrien, 47, of Screeby Street, Fivemiletown, dedicated 26 counts of fraud and cash laundering over an eight-year length.
It used to be established she considerably breached the agree with of her employers, Cookstown-based Northern Mouldings Restricted.
The corporate is owned through Heron Brothers.
McBrien used to be answerable for price range however regardless of taking part in a just right wage, she filtered money from the corporate, bringing it to the snapping point.
Figures recognized the expenditure sustained a luxurious way of life in her lavish mansion.
This incorporated £360,000 common expenditure; £356,000 belongings construction; £311,000 inside design; £231,000 style and good looks and £145,000 on jewelry.
McBrien made up false financial institution statements and cast the signature of a former worker after failing to take away his identify from the financial institution mandate.
She then cast a financial institution mandate making her only answerable for price range, countersigning cheques to herself and developing false invoices.
She additionally confided in an organization director claiming to have an extraordinary type of most cancers.
This used to be precisely the similar situation a detailed relative of the director had persevered and he went out of his manner to supply strengthen for McBrien as his worker.
However there used to be no most cancers and she or he endured to fund her way of life with out interference from her employer.
When she used to be arrested she admitted the offences, to start with claiming cash used to be spent “simply on vacations” including “there is not anything to turn for it”.
She blamed the corporate accountants for “now not doing their task correctly. If that they had, I would not be right here”.
“Luxurious way of life”
McBrien gave the impression within the dock of Dungannon Crown Court docket dressed solely in black and saved her head down, weeping right through her sentencing.
Pass judgement on Brian Sherrard QC famous the corporate positioned general agree with in her which have been considerably abused.
“Devoted colleagues confronted large monetary have an effect on whilst you loved your luxurious way of life,” the pass judgement on stated.
“You got preferential remedy through a director after claiming to have most cancers.
“You had been the writer of that lie and benefited from it.
“You had no attention for someone suffering from you.”
