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A judge gave a four year, two-month sentence Friday to a Calgary woman who twice fled to the UK to avoid being sent to prison for stealing nearly $2-million from her employer.<\/p>\n
Carol Lloyd, 66, pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 last summer. She received some credit for the time she\u2019d spent in custody both in Canada and the U.K. and has two years left to serve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lloyd was also ordered by Justice Brandy Shaw to pay a fine equivalent to the amount of money she stole. If she fails to pay the fine she could face up to five years of further prison time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In delivering her decision, Justice Shaw noted that in 2015, Lloyd created 117 false invoices and exploited her position as property manager of FirstService Residential in Calgary.<\/p>\n
The judge described it as an \u201cextremely large\u201d fraud against the property management company.<\/p>\n
Released on bail, flees again<\/p>\n
Lloyd stole more than $1.8-million by setting up a company with a similar name to that of a legitimate contractor, and then arranging for payments to be made to that company from FirstService.<\/p>\n
In November 2015, Lloyd flew to the U.K. to avoid arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After unsuccessfully fighting extradition, Lloyd was returned to Canada in 2021 to face her fraud charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But she was released on bail and within two weeks, Lloyd was back in the U.K.<\/p>\n
Guilty plea<\/p>\n
It took another four years to get Lloyd returned to Calgary as she continued to fight to stay in the U.K.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Finally, in the spring of 2025, Lloyd was back before a Calgary judge. She pleaded guilty in August.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Dane Bullerwell asked Justice Shaw to impose a five-year sentence, while defence lawyer Ryan Millar asked the judge to consider a two-year, time-served sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Millar argued for his client to receive credit for the time she served while fighting extradition in the U.K.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No reward for ‘taking flight’<\/p>\n
Shaw gave Lloyd a half-day of credit for each day she was in custody in England.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lloyd also argued that her age and health conditions should be considered in sentencing.<\/p>\n
The judge noted that the 10 years it took to bring the case to resolution was \u201csolely created\u201d by Lloyd herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAn offender should not be rewarded for taking flight,\u201d said Shaw.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lloyd ‘dishonest’<\/p>\n
Not only did Lloyd flee twice, she also was repeatedly found to have lied to the courts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a 2020 decision rejecting Lloyd\u2019s bid to fight extradition, U.K. Chief Magistrate Justice Emma Arbuthnot found that Lloyd\u2019s evidence was \u201cdishonest\u201d and that she\u2019d made \u201cfalse assertions that she had attempted suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is rarely the case that a defendant \u2026is ready to go to such lengths to mislead a court but I find that this has happened in this case,\u201d said Justice Arbuthnot.<\/p>\n
The U.K. Secretary of State ordered Lloyd\u2019s extradition and she was surrendered to Canada in June 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Many untruths’<\/p>\n
Back in Calgary, Justice Terry Semenuk released Lloyd on bail in July 2021. Two weeks later, Lloyd absconded to the U.K., in breach of her bail conditions.<\/p>\n
A second extradition request was made in 2023. Lloyd fought that too.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Again, a British judge found Lloyd \u201ctold many untruths to the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMrs. Lloyd\u2026 has exaggerated or deliberately told untruths about a number of matters about which she complains regarding her treatment within the Canadian prison estate,\u201d said District Judge John Zani.<\/p>\n
\u201cI find that her motivation for doing so is driven by her desire not to be extradited and to try to bolster her challenges to extradition,” said Zani.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Lloyd was once again extradited back to Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-399535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}