Leeds handbag thief bought KFC meals and scratchcards with stolen bank cards
Drug addict Sarah Ashman stole cash and bank cards from women's handbags in Leeds coffee shops, pubs and restaurants during a 13-month crime spree, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Ashman, 43, used the cards to make a string of fraudulent contactless payments for goods and services including scratch cards and KFC meals.
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Hide AdShe also stole a charity box from fish and chip restaurant and took an 86-year-old woman’s handbag as the pensioner was putting shopping in her car outside the Co-op store on Adel Lane, Leeds.
Mother-of-three Ashman, of no fixed abode, admitted 18 charges of theft and nine fraud offences committed between March 2018 and April this year.