A former purchase ledger clerk at Pembroke College, Cambridge stole £286,000 from her employer to help finance a gambling addiction, placing bets on online bingo site Jackpotjoy totalling more than £6 million and gambling any winnings.

Jaqueline Balaam, a 41 year-old married mother of two from Cambridge, was jailed for 30 months after admitting duplicating invoices from college suppliers, false accounting and defrauding a local social club of £3,000. She was caught by the college after an internal audit.