Prison for thieving assistant

A SERIAL fraudster was on parole when she stole more than $710,000 to buy a Range Rover, boat, jet ski, clothes and travel for her family.

Arabella Violet Anderson’s behaviour was so reprehensible that Judge Katherine McGinness ordered future employers be warned about her criminal history.

Anderson made 75 unauthorised transactions from her employer Wraith Capital Group to her own account between March 2015 and June 2016.

The 44-year-old was yesterday sentenced to eight years prison, with parole eligibility in July next year, after pleading guilty in Southport District Court to fraud.

Judge McGinness said it was just five weeks after Anderson started at Wraith Capital Group that she started taking the cash.

“They (Capital Wraith) have suffered huge financial loss but also suffered emotional harm and feelings of guilt which, of course, they do not deserve to suffer because the offending was entirely at your hands,” Judge McGinness said.

At the time of the offences Anderson was on parole for taking $176,000 from her previous employer, the court was told. Anderson has a lengthy history of taking from employers dating back to 1994.

“She should never be let near a job like that,” Judge McGinness said.

She ordered Probation and Parole must tell future employers of her criminal history when Anderson is released.

Anderson has been in custody since January last year.

Her barrister Sarah Thompson said Anderson had been a model prisoner and trusted enough to be assigned to a halfway house.

She said Anderson hoped to study nutrition.