A 61-year-old woman who scammed the company she worked for out of £600,000 has been jailed.

Angela Puttick of Maesteg, Bridgend, Milton Keynes, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position at Aylesbury Crown Court.

She was sentenced to three years and four months behind bars on Wednesday, September 21

The crimes occurred between June 2016 and September 2018 against the technology company Puttick worked for.

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She used her employer’s accounts to make a number of purchases whilst working for them as an accounts clerk.

Puttick duplicated invoices and changed the employer bank account details to her own.

The total of money fraudulently transferred by Puttick was £675,180.

Investigating officer, Detective Constable Kathryn Neilson, based at Milton Keynes police station, said: “This case is unusual in that the way the offence of fraud committed, was both bold and brazen, mostly under the eyes of her employers from who she fraudulently obtained the money, for entirely her own gain. 

“Puttick was ultimately employed in a position of trust and confidence and betrayed this at an extraordinary level. 

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“She started by obtaining smaller amounts of money from the company accounts as she begun the offence in the summer of 2016. 

“By the time she was arrested, these amounts had increased tremendously and were at times committed daily.”