AN ACCOUNTANT who stole more than £14,000 from the independent opticians where she was working made her colleagues feel soiled and betrayed , a court has heard. Gemma Louise Fosbrook, 24, was working for BBR Optometry in Hereford in 2019 when she stole £14,322.61 over five months. On April 20, Worcester Crown Court was told the opticians, in St Owen Street, only started to investigate when Fosbrook s behaviour changed and she took days off work, prosecution barrister Jason Aris said. The investigation found duplicates of genuine payments were set up to go to Fosbrook s bank account, but she claimed to be innocent. Fosbrook, of Morgan Orchard in Kington, only changed her pleas to guilty less than two weeks before her trial.
AN ACCOUNTANT from Kington who stole more than £14,000 from the independent opticians where she was working made her colleagues feel soiled and betrayed , a court has heard. Gemma Louise Fosbrook, 24, was working for BBR Optometry in Hereford in 2019 when she stole £14,322.61 over five months. On April 20, Worcester Crown Court was told the opticians, in St Owen Street, only started to investigate when Fosbrook s behaviour changed and she took days off work, prosecution barrister Jason Aris said. The investigation found duplicates of genuine payments were set up to go to Fosbrook s bank account, but she claimed to be innocent. Fosbrook, of Morgan Orchard in Kington, only changed her pleas to guilty less than two weeks before her trial.