{"id":797209,"date":"2026-10-09T17:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797209\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:04:17","slug":"nationwide-cashier-to-repay-12k-after-stealing-from-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797209\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide cashier to repay \u00a312k after stealing from customers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A building society cashier who stole thousands of pounds from customers to pay for “lavish” holidays has been ordered to repay more than \u00a312,000.<\/p>\n

Kelly Kershaw, 54, stole \u00a313,333 including from vulnerable and elderly customers at Nationwide in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, even forging the signature of a man with learning disabilities.<\/p>\n

Kershaw admitted five counts of fraud<\/a> after colleagues spotted Facebook posts of her on safari in Africa, and on trips to Paris, Tuscany and Dubai.<\/p>\n

She was jailed for 16 months in May but returned to Caernarfon Crown Court for a Proceeds of Crime Act, external<\/a> hearing, and told to pay back \u00a312,630 – the amount of money she had in assets.<\/p>\n

Judge Jones ordered Kershaw to repay the sum within three months or face a further five months in prison.<\/p>\n

The mother-of-two posted pictures of skiing trips, safaris and romantic European getaways on her Facebook page and boasted she was “living and loving life one adventure at a time.”<\/p>\n

Kershaw’s victims included an 85-year-old man who had lost some “cognitive abilities” after suffering a stroke – and she stole \u00a36,300 from him.<\/p>\n

On one occasion, he came to the branch asking to withdraw \u00a3200, but Kershaw logged the withdrawal as \u00a3500 and pocketed \u00a3300 herself.<\/p>\n

Another victim was a 49-year-old man with learning difficulties who lost \u00a31,400 to Kershaw – he had his bank card kept in the branch as he was a previous victim of fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A building society cashier who stole thousands of pounds from customers to pay for “lavish” holidays has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797209","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=797209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}