WHEN drug addicts get desperate, it is not surprising they resort to stealing.

What is surprising in the case of Michelle Mullane, at Bicester company British Bakels, was that she managed to get away with more than £340,000 before being discovered.

These breaches of trust will, inevitably, be discovered eventually by employers, so the fun fraudsters enjoy buying expensive jewellery and other costly items will be fleeting before the law catches up with them.