POCKLINGTON: The former payroll supervisor who ran a £200,000 plus fraud at Barratt Homes Ltd must pay back only ten per cent of the money she stole.

Natalie Lisa Sissons, 34, used her position to create "ghost" employees to siphon money from the company's account into her own, prosecutor Alan Mitcheson said at York Crown Court.

She netted £181.929.21 and through her mechanisms, the company unwittingly paid the taxman £40,187.68 in PAYE contributions for the "ghost" employees. But when finance experts investigated her finances, they could only find assets worth £18,384.46 that the authorities can confiscate.

Recorder Timothy Roberts QC ordered that she hand over the money within six months, or face another year behind bars.

Sissons, of Thurlow Avenue, Pocklington, is serving two years in jail after admitting 11 theft offences and asking for 18 more to be taken into consideration.

The judge also ordered that the confiscation money be paid to Barratt Homes Ltd as part compensation for what it had lost. The court heard that the Inland Revenue had already repaid the £40,187.68 PAYE contributions.