Fraud case carer's 'hell' spares her from jail term
A FORMER care worker convicted of fraudulently spending taxpayer money was spared jail yesterday.
A community service punishment handed down instead came after Carolyn Hulbert's advocate made an impassioned plea that she had already suffered enough without adding a prison term to that.
Advocate Paul Lockwood said the public condemnation of Hulbert's crime had already put her through 'hell and back'.
Hulbert, pictured, of 4, Heroniere Drive, Rue des Bas Courtils, St Sampson's, was sentenced to 120 hours of community service.
Advocate Lockwood told the Magistrate's Court of Hulbert's strain over the public reaction to her crime, the notoriety it brought on her and of the case becoming a 'political football'.
He drew comparisons to the former care worker being put in public stocks following the attention and public reaction to her using the HSSD purchase card to buy £725-worth of goods for herself while working at Sunnybrook residential home, Route de Carteret, Castel.
'Her life has been on hold. She has been a mess of nerves,' he said during the sentencing hearing.
