Embezzlement | Worker plunges employer into debt by stealing £150K - but only pays back £1

A finance employee at a formerly successful restaurant has been ordered to pay back one pound to her employer despite stealing over £150,000.

The employee in question, Nicola Nightingale, worked in the finance department of the The Hardwick in Abergavenny, a restaurant owned by Great British Menu chef Stephen Terry, when she started to extract money from the business with help from her husband Simon.