Mary Mercedes Lea'aeto forged the woman's signature on withdrawal forms multiple times over a nine-month period in what prosecutors labelled a 'calculated' crime.
What's next?An ANZ employee in country Western Australia who withdrew $56,596 from a pensioner's account has been jailed for two years.
But defence lawyer Sonia Anderson rejected that claim and told the court her then-23-year-old client was expected to financially support her family by buying food and alcohol for them. Judge Lonsdale said a defence submission for a suspended sentence was "not appropriate" and the "repeated nature, continual breach of trust and amount of money stolen" warranted an immediate term of imprisonment.
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