A financial manager who stole almost £200k from her employer to go on exotic holidays and shop at high-end stores has been jailed for five years and 10 months.

Anita Mirmohammadi, 31, splashed the cash at Harrods, Selfridges and Mercedes-Benz as well as jetting off to Dubai, Mexico and Turkey.

She exploited her access to sensitive financial information and the corporate credit card but was caught after her transactions were exposed during routine checks.

Mirmohammadi, from Finchley, north London, syphoned off a total of £184,675 from a firm in Essex over a four-year period.

After starting work at a Brentwood-based business as a manager in their finance team in 2018, Mirmohammadi was given access to a business credit card.