Hotel Receptionist Gets Borstal Term For Theft

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31111, 14 July 1966, Page 11

Hotel Receptionist Gets Borstal Term For Theft

(N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, July 13. Karen Marilyn Broad, aged 19, a hotel receptionist was sentenced to borstal training by Mr Stewart Hardy, S.M., today for stealing £543 2s from the Nottingham Castle Hotel, Morrinsville. “These are serious charges involving substantial sums over a long period, and it is not in her own or the public’s interest for her to be released on probation,” said the Magistrate. “These offences are completely out of character, and it was only after she became pregnant that they occurred,” her counsel, Mr T. K. Gillies said. Broad planned to marry in November. I Detective • Sergeant M.

O’Connor said Broad as a receptionist at the hotel, handled mail, accommodation bookings and banking. ' “When cheques from firms arrived paying for accommodation, she placed them with the daily takings and withdrew the equivalent amount in cash, from the hotel safe,” he said. “She was then able to manipulate and balance her records without the shortages being discovered.”

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