{"id":713184,"date":"2026-07-27T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713184\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:40:09","slug":"gran-sells-home-to-pay-back-115k-she-stole-from-norfolk-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713184\/","title":{"rendered":"Gran sells home to pay back \u00a3115k she stole from Norfolk charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A great-grandma who stole \u00a3115,000 from a charity has been forced to sell her home to repay the money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pamela Bent took the money while working as the treasurer of the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (Sharp), based near Hunstanton, in Norfolk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The then 65-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdjepy34jylo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">avoided jail <\/a>but received a two-year suspended sentence on the condition she sold her home to repay what she took.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A director for Sharp said the crime nearly shut the organisation but it was now  &#8220;on the up&#8221; after the money had been repaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bent was a trustee at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharp.org.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharp, external<\/a>, which runs the largest independent archaeological projects in Britain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6285j2znkxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">admitted four charges<\/a>, including fraud by abuse of position and falsifying documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A great-grandma who stole \u00a3115,000 from a charity has been forced to sell her home to repay the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}