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A construction company’s financial controller who used a range of tactics, including fake invoices, payslips and emails, to siphon more than $180,000 from her employer and the Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme, has avoided prison due to her stage 4 melanoma.
Rachel Marie Wansbrough, known by her maiden name Lamberth at the time of her offending against her employer Isaac Construction, was sentenced to 12 months home detention at the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday.
At the company she was quickly promoted and achieved a high level of “status”, Judge Tony Couch said.
“In appointing you to those positions… the company placed a great deal of trust in you,” the judge said. “You repeatedly and severely breached that trust.”
