A WOMAN who used a bottle top and boot polish to fake official stamps in her savings book has admitted defrauding An Post of £2 000 in one month.
Niamh Byrne opened an account with £2, changed the amount entered in her book toe £320 and used the top of a medicine bottle smeared with polish to make a crude forgery of the official teller's stamp.
Days later she withdrew £190 from her account.
Much to her surprise she was able to continue the deception by making false lodgment entries in her savings book and withdrawing money, Det Garda John McEnery told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Her family were known to the post office staff, and she was accepted at her word.
But after a month the postmaster became suspicious and called in gardai. She was arrested having obtained by fraud a total of £2,016.
Byrne (24), a mother of one child, of Mountain View Drive, Rathfarnham, pleaded guilty to six sample charges of obtaining money by false pretences from Nutgrove Post Office.
Judge Cyril Kelly requested an updated probation report for next December 11th and remanded her on bail until then.