article_snippet.sent: Since there was no second signatory on that one either, staff phoned the previous school and spoke to Sian Harkin. '
article_snippet.sent: Harkin (left) 'dabbled' in school funds while headteacher of the primary, a position Harkin (left) had held for nine years .
article_snippet.sent: Sian Harkin was called into a special meeting on January 21 last year and challenged about the irregularities.
article_snippet.sent: That led to a criminal investigation and Sian Harkin admitted five counts of fraud and one each of theft and forgery.
article_snippet.sent: Sian Harkin told officers that Sian Harkin knew Sian Harkin should not have 'dabbled' in school funds.
article_snippet.sent: Marion Lewis, defending, said: 'It is a tragedy to see a woman of Sian Harkin calibre before the criminal court in such serious offences as these.
article_snippet.sent: Sian Harkin knows the effect Sian Harkin actions have had on the school and deeply regrets them. '
article_snippet.sent: The effects of Sian Harkin wrongdoing have been devastating.
article_snippet.sent: A successful career that Sian Harkin dearly loved has been destroyed.
article_snippet.sent: Sian Harkin is thoroughly ashamed. '
article_snippet.sent: Sian Harkin eyes were not opened until Sian Harkin was confronted with the fact that Lee Slocombe's had pleaded guilty to offences of fraud. '
article_snippet.sent: Sian Harkin has found it very difficult to come to terms with Sian Harkin own gullibility and feels completely humiliated.'
article_snippet.sent: Ms Lewis asked for any sentence to be suspended but Judge Richard Twomlow refused Judge Richard Twomlow plea and jailed Harkin for 12 months.
highlights_snippet.sent: Harkin, 54, married to bank manager, now jailed for fraud, theft and forgery .
  