Employee stole almost £5,000 from Hartlepool social club over seven months
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Daniel Rowbotham, 42, was convicted of stealing a total of £4,965 in cash from the Corporation Social Club, known as the Clippy club, in Whitby Street, over a seven-month period.
He pleaded guilty to one count of theft by employee from the social club at an earlier hearing before Teesside Magistrates’ Court.
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Hide AdThe offence was carried out between July 30 in 2022 and February 5 of 2023.
Magistrates decided to send the case to Teesside Crown Court to pass sentence where Rowbotham, of Derby Street, Hartlepool, appeared earlier this month.
He was sentenced to a community order for 18 months. Among its conditions are that he must complete 150 hours of unpaid work and attend 10 rehabilitation activity requirement days.
A collection order for a victim surcharge, which everyone who is convicted of an offence has to pay, was also made by the court.