A ‘hardworking’ and ‘bubbly’ mother-of-two’s lifetime of deception led her to con her circle of relatives and pals in a rip-off price half one million kilos.
Annabelle Allan, 29, was a seemingly regular lady from Halifax who labored as a technician at a Lloyds Financial institution department.
Nevertheless, the beauty-loving prison mastermind ‘sophisticatedly’ used her job as a ‘cowl’ to trick these closest to her – together with her personal brother – into investing in a faux share scheme.
The seemingly clever younger lady might have earnt an trustworthy residing for herself, however as an alternative her ‘dependancy to cash’ led her straight to jail, with even her brother supporting the prosecution’s case.
In accordance with her LinkedIn profile, Allan began working at Lloyds Banking Group in September 2015. Previous to that she had labored as an ICT Technician and a Service Desk Advisor.
On her profile, she describes herself as a ‘hardworking, bubbly, enthusiastic and pleasant particular person’ who has a ‘thirst for information’.
Annabelle Allan, 29, (pictured) was a seemingly regular lady from Halifax who labored as a technician at a Lloyds Financial institution department
The mother-of-two used her job as a ‘cowl’ to trick these closest to her – together with her personal brother – into investing in a faux share scheme
She goes on to speak about her expertise working in IT and says she is ‘superb at coping with clients’. She writes: ‘I’m very simple to get together with and perceive the problems clients are dealing with once they contact me and I sympathise with this.’
Allan additionally says that she ‘thrives off studying new expertise’ and enjoys taking part in hobbies together with dancing, going to the health club, snowboarding and assembly up with pals.
It’s clear that the mum-of-two was not predicting a spell behind bars for herself as she provides: ‘I usually get requested the place I want to be in 5-10 years time and actually I haven’t got a solution. The one reply I’m certain of is that will probably be in IT.’
Her hobbies embody ‘dancing, going to the health club, snowboarding, assembly up with pals, baking, motorbiking and studying new expertise’.
She writes: ‘I’m all the time attempting new hobbies with my pals as I like studying and pushing myself to have the ability to obtain issues. I’m excited to see the place my profession inside IT takes me as I study and develop.’
It seems that the prison mastermind additionally had a ardour for all issues hair and sweetness. Her Firms Home reveals that she arrange the hair and sweetness enterprise Annabelle’s Magnificence Ltd on January 5, 2019, nonetheless this went on to be dissolved on November 3, 2021.
Her Fb web page reveals additional particulars of the sweetness enterprise, with a consumer in 2019 sharing a photograph of her lash extensions with the caption: ‘Annabelle’s made my eyelashes superb but once more.’
Additional information present that she arrange a second enterprise Annabelle Maisie Commerce Ltd, with a registered workplace in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in January final yr.
Different posts on her profile current her as household oriented, with a number of posts from her shut family members calling her ‘a magnificence’, in addition to pictures of her two kids.
Allan scammed her personal brother by taking out private loans in his title, Bradford Crown Courtroom heard
Bradford Crown Courtroom (pictured) heard some victims had been reimbursed by Lloyds Financial institution, however there was nonetheless an unaccounted sum of £167,796.40
However behind the masks of a ‘bubbly’ younger lady who had a ‘thirst of information’ lay a a lot darker thoughts. On Tuesday, June 18, Bradford Crown Courtroom heard how Allan started her offending again in 2017 when she was mentioned to have been struggling together with her personal money owed.
Prosecutor Marte Alnaes outlined particulars of Allan’s offending to the court docket, which began together with her taking out private loans in her brother’s title with out his information.
Ms Alnaes mentioned these offences had resulted in an impressive debt of greater than £16,600 and her brother had had a county court docket judgement made towards him at one stage.
She mentioned her brother had spent months attempting to ‘clear his title’ and he had no choice however to assist the police in prosecuting his sister.
Ms Alnaes mentioned between 2017 and 2019, Allan additionally used her IT place at a Lloyds Financial institution knowledge centre to plot a ‘detailed and convincing’ faux share scheme earlier than encouraging household, pals and acquaintances to spend money on it.
Over that interval Allan was mentioned to have obtained just below £500,000, however virtually £330,000 had been ‘recycled’ again to buyers. The court docket heard that some victims had additionally been reimbursed by Lloyds Financial institution, however there was nonetheless an unaccounted sum of £167,796.40.
Allan was mentioned to have solid signatures and despatched buyers faux letters purporting to be from the police or solicitors. Lloyds Financial institution investigated Allan’s actions in early 2019 and after being suspended she was dismissed 4 months later.
In Courtroom, Allan’s barrister Recorder Bryan Cox KC defined how Allan fell right into a ‘vicious cycle of debt’ after taking out a Payday mortgage when she was 18.
