Former bank employee accused of stealing €144k

A former Bank of Ireland employee has been sent forward for trial accused of stealing €144,000 from branches in Dublin over a nine-year period.

Alice Warnock, aged 54, from Rathbeale Ct, Swords, in Dublin was arrested at her home by officers from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation (GBFI). She was charged with 77 counts of theft of various sums. She also faces 26 counts of false accounting contrary to Section 10 of the Theft and Fraud Act, and a charge for attempted false accounting.

The offences are alleged to have occurred from 2003 until 2012 at Bank of Ireland’s Malahide, Dublin Airport, and Talbot St branches.