Paula Phillips: Lavish shopping sprees
The manager of a housing estate who went on shopping sprees with at least £100,000 taken from its accounts could face jail.
Paula Phillips, 52, spent thousands on Amazon and at stores including Tesco, Argos and ScrewFix.
She went on the sprees while employed as estate manager of Wellington Mills housing co-operative in Lambeth, from March 2015 to last April, Inner London crown court heard.
She also swindled more than £10,000 in her previous job at Havering council.
Phillips, of Romford, admitted fraud by abuse of position.
Judge Jeremy Donne QC freed her on unconditional bail until sentencing on June 2, and warned that prison was a “distinct possibility”.
