Headmistress convicted of theft and deception...

antrim | miscellaneous | news report Thursday August 28, 2003 21:14 by Only a matter of time, before they catch up with Lagan C

No they haven't got round to investigating misapropriation of Lagan College funds yet, but a Kent Headmistress who lined her own pockets from the School budget, has been convicted of theft and deception.

Headmistress Colleen McCabe, was convicted of embezzling up to £500,000/Half a million of her school's budget, to fund her luxurious and glamourous lifestyle.

Whilst school children had to share a text book between 3 pupils, and pay for their own exercise books, McCabe was living it up, on school funds and milked the school's £3million budget over the course of 5 years. Mc Cabe enforced penny pinching measures, getting kids to clean their own classrooms, whilst driving to school in an expensive Lexus sports car.
Former staff at the school said her extravagance had gone unchecked for so long, because it was underpinned by a reign of terror. A former colleague likened her to "Soddem in a skirt".

Now who does that remind us of, ring any bells at Lagan College.