A social security office worker who concocted an "elaborate" scam by arranging for benefits to be paid to people she knew, who would then give her the cash, was sentenced to six months in jail, suspended for three years, at Coleraine Magistrates Court on Thursday. 45-year-old mother-of-two Veronica Norton was working at the Coleraine benefits office in 2011 when she swindled £4,244 over a six months period and District Judge Liam McNally told her it was at the high end of breach of trust cases and ordered her to pay back "every penny". Norton, whose address was given on court papers as Craiglea Gardens in Kilrea but is now living at Belmont Park in nearby Rasharkin, pleaded guilty to theft....
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