Bank worker avoids prison; Woman took pounds 10k from customers.Byline: NAOMI Naomi (nāō`mē, –mī, nā`ō–), in the Bible, Ruth's mother-in-law. CORRIGAN FORCED marriage issues and the trauma of losing a baby led a bank worker to fleece customers out of more than pounds 10,000, a court heard. Galaza Khan targeted the accounts of three customers while working as a customer adviser for Barclays Bank in Albert Road Albert Road is split into two roads in Hong Kong, namely Upper Albert Road (Chinese: 上亞厘畢道) and Lower Albert Road (下亞厘畢道). in Middlesbrough. Teesside Crown Court heard how the 33-year-old had taken the money to financially support her younger sister who had been disowned dis·own tr.v. dis·owned, dis·own·ing, dis·owns To refuse to acknowledge or accept as one's own; repudiate. by the family after problems with an arranged marriage The purpose of an arranged marriage is to form a new family unit by marriage while respecting the chastity of all people involved. As suggested by the term, an arranged marriage is typically arranged by someone other than the persons getting married, curtailing or avoiding the . She was also struggling with depression after suffering a miscarriage miscarriage: see abortion. miscarriage or spontaneous abortion Spontaneous expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus before it can live outside the mother. . Khan, who is married with a three-year-old boy and is now five months pregnant, pleaded guilty to seven charges of fraud while in a position of trust. The court heard how she made unauthorised withdrawals from customers' accounts between October 2007 and March 2008. Prosecuting, Jolyon Perks said: "The victims in this case were all vulnerable by virtue of their age and some of the victims had language problems. The individuals would have been compensated by the bank but there has been no money recovered so far from the defendant." Khan had taken withdrawal slips to the cashier claiming they had been signed by the customer then deposited the money into her own accounts. The offences came to light when a 90-year-old customer noticed on his yearly statement that unauthorised withdrawals of pounds 2,000 and pounds 1,245 had been made. Police searched Khan's home and found a diary in which she had recorded her activities. Kieran Rainey, defending, said Khan was under extreme stress at the time she carried out the fraud. "It was a time when she was trying to assist her sister who had been put through the ordeal of an arranged marriage," he said. "The family rejected her sister." He said the sister had accrued significant debts and Khan felt responsible to take on those debts. She planned to repay them with gold she had been promised from a dowry dowry (dou`rē), the property that a woman brings to her husband at the time of the marriage. The dowry apparently originated in the giving of a marriage gift by the family of the bridegroom to the bride and the bestowal of money upon the bride by from her own marriage, he added. Coupled with losing a baby, the stress led her to suffer a "common sense bypass". He added that the fact the victims were elderly was "a coincidence" and because they only got yearly statements she intended to pay the debts back before they noticed. Judge Brian Forster Brian Forster (born April 14, 1960) was the second actor to play the role of Chris Partridge in the television series The Partridge Family. He joined the show in 1971, replacing Jeremy Gelbwaks, and continued until the show ended in 1974. QC gave Khan a nine-month jail sentence jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison , suspended for 18 months with a supervision requirement. He told her: "Your sister had been disowned and ran away and came to live with yourself. "She had considerable debt and with a sense of duty and loyalty you tried to assist her." CAPTION(S): COURT CASE: Jolyon Perks |
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