City exec who stole £100k from club told to pay back just £2,550
Manchester Evening News|July 08, 2023
A FORMER Manchester City executive who stole from the club to pay for her wedding has been ordered to pay back just £2,550.
AMY WALKER
City exec who stole £100k from club told to pay back just £2,550

Fiona Barclay, 34, who worked as a business development manager for City within the football club's hospitality department, earning up to £30,000 a year, was jailed in November last year for fraud.

She was caught swindling over £100,000 from the club. After she was discovered, she told the police she'd used her ill-gotten gains to pay for her wedding and buy 'gifts' for her husband and family.

Yesterday, appearing over video-link from her native Falkirk for a Proceeds of Crime Act Hearing, she was ordered to pay back just £2,550.

At the beginning of the hearing when asked if she was alone on the video call, she told the judge that her seven-week-old baby was next to her.

Judge Timothy Smith said: "In light of everything uploaded, the benefit figure is £104,934.16, arising out of general criminal conduct.

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