article_snippet.sent: Valerie Rutty stole thousands of pounds raised by Valerie Rutty pupils from bake sales and fetes that was supposed to pay for new school kit .
article_snippet.sent: Valerie Rutty, of Warrington, Cheshire, altered invoices by increasing the prices of work Valerie Rutty had commissioned - then paid the difference between the actual sums into Valerie Rutty own bank account by cheque from the school fund.
article_snippet.sent: But Rutty wrote nine separate cheques into a bank account Rutty shared with Rutty mother between December 2010 and May last year.
article_snippet.sent: Rutty was only caught when Salford City Council received an anonymous letter saying Rutty had been stealing from the school accounts.
article_snippet.sent: An audit was then carried out and Rutty was suspended from Irlam Primary School in Greater Manchester in September last year, subsequently losing Rutty £60,000-a-year job.
article_snippet.sent: At Manchester Crown Court Rutty was handed a four-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to carry out 70 hours of unpaid work in the community after admitting theft.
article_snippet.sent: Juliet Berry, prosecuting, said: ‘The account from which Juliet Berry stole money was entitled the “Irlam Primary School Fund”.
article_snippet.sent: Rutty had done a ‘great deal of benefit’ to Irlam Primary School and Rutty achieved ratings of ‘good’ in Rutty last Ofsted report, the court was told.
article_snippet.sent: Rutty was also ordered to pay costs of £500.
highlights_snippet.sent: Valerie Rutty altered invoices by raising prices of work
highlights_snippet.sent: Valerie Rutty commissioned .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Valerie Rutty then paid Valerie Rutty difference between actual sums from school fund .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Valerie Rutty stole £3,500 from fund of school in Greater Manchester in three years .
  