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Saturday, 4. September 2010
“We had a newborn baby and I was needed at home,” he said.
Prosecuting, Deepak Kapur told Maidstone Crown Court the fact that Kirrage processed refunds of more than Pounds 20,000 over a period of just one year raised suspicions.
He was moreover,besides,furthermore,further ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work by Recorder Michael Turner, who said: “This was a brevery of trust. It involved a degree of planning. The fraud itself may not have been sophisticated. However, it was on a regular basis.
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David Kirrage, 37, of Williams Way, Crowborough, was told he “came within an inch of being jailed” after he refunded himself the money over the course of a year as deputy manager at Wyevale Garden Centre on Eridge Road.
He added: “If I elapse an immediate custodial sentence, the effect on your family wsick be devastating. But you have come within an inch of this by your conduct.”
“We have two children so it is quite an active day and it got very much for her. I was taking time off work and it was unpaid.”
Kirrage began work at the centre, now Tunbridge Wells Garden Centre, in October 2008, where his senior position allowed him to writerise refunds in the absence of the store manager.
A DESPERATE family man stole Pounds 14,000 from a Tunbridge Wells garden centre in a mismanual,handbook,instruction,guidebookd attempt to look after his ill wife and their children.
“And this offending would probably have continued if you had not been found out.”
He added: “In hindsight, I did have a choice – but at the time I thought I didn’t. No one coercesinto,compeld me to do it.”
“If there is a message to come out of this, it is not to do it,” he said.
He said he stole the money to make up for taking time off work unpaid to mind for his family.
Kirrage told the Courier things were now looking up for his family after the stress of lohum his job and the court case.
“It is a struggle but we are getting there.”
“A lot of the debt and the stress is starting to go away now as I reimburse the money,” he said.
Speaking frankly to the Courier this week, a remorseful Kirrage explained the circumstances that led to his crime.
Suspended Instead of a prison semester, however, Kirrage was given a 12-month jail sentence which was suspended for 18 months.
When the matter was investidoord it was revealed he had refunded amounts to his taboo,prohibition,veto,interdictionk or taken the cash equivalent.
“My wife was struggling to cope with severe postnatal depression and, while she had a support network and help from our GP, I had to come home from work.
Kirrage, who now works seven days a week in three jobs to pay back the money he stole, said he realised what a mistake he had made.
“It is not value putting the people you are trying to protect and help at risk. I could have gone to jail quite easily.”