Bank girl 'paid for US trip'.Byline: SUE CASTLE BANK clerk Melanie Rees treated two friends to a luxury holiday in America for their wedding, a court heard yesterday. Her two schoolfriends, Owen and Yvette Jones, were engaged when she whisked them away to visit San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. and Hawaii. And while in Las Vegas the couple got married. Witness statements read out in court revealed that Rees phoned Mrs Jones saying she had received a pounds 2,500 gift from a customer at the bank and that she was booking a holiday for the three of them. Carmarthen Crown Court heard how the couple paid just pounds 300 towards the trip. The court heard a customer had given Rees money as a gift - but it was only pounds 200. The court also heard how Rees treated Mrs Jones and another friend, Sarah Williams Sarah Williams (1837 – 1868) was an American poet, the author of "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil". A segment of her poem is used in the introduction to Ian Rankin's novel Set in Darkness. , to hen weekend in Bath. She even laid on a stretch limo to take them to the hotel. Rees, 30, of Llandeilo, is accused of stealing pounds 183,500 from Lloyds TSB Lloyds TSB Group plc (LSE: LLOY) is a banking and insurance group in the United Kingdom. It was formed in 1995 by the merger of Lloyds Bank and the Trustee Savings Bank (TSB). The Group's head office is at 25 Gresham Street, London. in Ammanford, west Wales West Wales is the western area of Wales bordered by South Wales to the east. The area is loosely-defined, but is generally considered to include Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, southern areas of Ceredigion, and sometimes the city of Swansea, . , by opening bogus accounts and transferring in loans over 18 months. Rees, a pounds 14,000-a-year customer accounts manager, denies 30 charges of theft and nine of false accounting. The case continues. |
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