Assets frozen over theft claim

A WOMAN alleged to have bought a car and a house while paid £55 a week for babysitting is not to reduce her assets below £73,…

A WOMAN alleged to have bought a car and a house while paid £55 a week for babysitting is not to reduce her assets below £73,000 until after the hearing of an action brought against her by her employer, Mr Justice McCracken ordered in the High Court yesterday.

Last week, the court granted a temporary injunction against Ms Kay Murray, of Ashe Street, Cavan, and adjourned the matter until yesterday.

Mr Thomas Donohoe, a businessman of Antiduff, Ballyhaise Co Cavan, told last week's court hearing that he and a partner ran a coin operated cigarette vending machine business.

A coin float of £5,000 would be retained because change was packaged with cigarettes at his home. The coins were stored uncounted in a locked room in his house and he alone had a key but a second key was hidden.

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He said he employed Ms Murray as a part time babysitter and to package change into packets of cigarettes. On May 28th he was told Ms Murray deposited between £500 and £1,000 in pound coins in a Cavan bank.

Mr Donohoe said he contacted Cavan gardai on June 5th, who installed a concealed video camera in the room. After Ms Murray left his home the shortfall of coins was £1,140. Gardai told him the video recorded Ms Murray taking the money.