The former treasurer a Norfolk-based charity has admitted to stealing more than £100,000 from the organisation.
Pamela Bent, who was treasurer of the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (Sharp), pleaded guilty to one count of fraud and three counts of false accounting on 15 August at Norwich Crown Court.
The charges included fraud by abuse of position and falsifying documents at the charity, which claims to be one of the UK’s largest independent archaeological projects and is based in the village of Sedgeford near Hunstanton, Norfolk.
According to a BBC report, Bent stole about £113,000 from Sharp, which had an annual income over £65,000 in the year to March 2023, between June 2020 and January 2022.
In the charity’s most recently filed accounts for 2022-23, it reported a “fraudulent expenditure net of repayment” of £18,463.
Bent has paid back half of the money to Sharp, with £61,000 still outstanding, the BBC report says.
When asked by the BBC whether she wanted to apologise to the charity, Bent responded: “I’ve already apologised.”
Bent is due to be sentenced on 14 October.
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