By Jack Newman For Mailonline
Published: 19:24 GMT, 3 March 2019 | Updated: 19:24 GMT, 3 March 2019
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A casino cashier who broke into a company safe and created fake winners to steal £50,000 has been spared jail.
Caroline Maguire, 51, had worked at the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton Marina for ten years before she took the money to fund her lavish lifestyle, a court heard.
The mother-of-two from Peacehaven, near Brighton, wanted to pay off bills and payday loan debts, but then became greedy and took nearly £49,000 to live a more expensive lifestyle, Lewes Crown Court heard.
Caroline Maguire, 51, has been spared jail after stealing nearly £50,000 from the casino in Brighton where she worked
Recorder Joshua Swirsky, who imposed a 16-month suspended sentence, said: 'You had the advantage of your knowledge of the system.
'It was a serious breach of trust.'
Maguire, who had not told her husband or children about the case, was considered a trusted