Behind bars : Peter Mills was sentenced to 21 months for stealing £20,000 by hiding £50 notes in chocolate bar wrappers . A greedy thief used empty KitKat wrappers to smuggle £20,000 out of his workplace . Peter Mills , 68 , would eat the chocolate then fill the empty wrapper with wads of £50 notes that he stole from his employers Vaultex Ltd in Tonbridge , Kent . He was caught on CCTV after his employers at the cash handling depot became suspicious . They discovered 97 incidents over 50 days of Mills hiding the money then concealing the wrappers on his body . Suspicious staff searched him and found five £50 notes round a KitKat wrapper , famed for its slogan 'have a break , have a KitKat ' . Kent Police was called and further cash was found in Mills 's car . And when his locker was searched , police discovered a stash of empty KitKat wrappers inside . Mills from Chatham , Kent , initially denied stealing the money during interviews with police , claiming the money must have got caught up in the sweet wrappers by accident . But he admitted four offences of theft at Maidstone Crown Court after bank statements revealed £30,000 in cash had been paid in over a four-month period from February to May 2014 . Prosecuter Mary Jacobson said : 'He surreptitiously put a bundle of notes into the wrapper . 'He would go off for a break and hide the wrapper in his trouser pocket before leaving the room . Greedy : Peter Mills would eat the Kit Kat then use the wrapper to steal wads of money from his employer , as shown in this mock up supplied by Kent police . 'He would secrete it to remove it from the building at the end of the shift and this was a very consistent pattern that he continued . ' Mills , who started working for Vaultex Ltd in 2008 , was given a 21 month prison sentence . Judge Jeremy Carey said it was 'very serious offending ' . 'You were tempted and you succumbed and that puts a very different complexion on this case , ' he said . 'There is a very unattractive feature because you have done everything you can to reduce your culpability . 'It is said you did so because you were ashamed of what you had done . '
Caught on CCTV after colleagues became suspicious of his behaviour . A search found he had five £50 notes in chocolate wrapper . Police discovered stash of empty Peter Mills wrappers in his locker . Admitted theft after bank statements showed large cash deposits .