A LLANYMYNECH woman must pay more than £400,000 after she defrauded two firms.

Ann Jones, of Heritage Way, appeared at Shrewsbury Crown Court sitting in Telford, on Friday, September 22 for a proceeds of crime hearing.

The 62-year-old was jailed for two years and eight months in 2018 after she admitted unlawfully taking between £122,000 and £130,000 from Jim Dorricott Construction Ltd of Minsterley, near Shrewsbury, over a three-year period starting in 2013.

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She was sentenced to a further 12 months in 2020 for a £76,000 fraud conducted over an eight-year period from 2004 to 2012 from manufacturing firm CV Rollers, based at the Mile Oak Industrial Estate, Maesbury Road, Oswestry.

Jones had worked as an accounts manager at both firms.

At Shrewsbury Crown Court on Friday, Mr Recorder C Millington KC made an order that Jones must pay back £416,714.96.

He said that of this £298,932.20 would be split as compensation between Jim Dorricott Construction Limited and CV Rollers, while the remaining £117,782.78 would be paid as a confiscation order to ensure she does not benefit from her crimes.

Jones will have three and a half years to pay back the sum.