Finance officer used school credit card for trips with pals
St Wilfrids High School, Blackburn. A HIGH SCHOOL finance officer used the school's credit card to fund away days with pals. Magistrates heard Ann Marie Mitchell splashed out £706 on train tickets and also bought a £1,000 MacBook Pro and an iPhone using the bank card. After suspicions were raised the head teacher at St Wilfrid's Academy compared Mitchell's Facebook activity with train transactions and realised they matched her weekends away rather than school trips. Mitchell, 48, pleaded guilty to 11 charges of fraud by abuse of position. She was made subject to a community order f...