A 'greedy' personal assistant who stole more than £166,000 from her employer despite living in a £1m house and having a rental property empire has been jailed.

Mum-of-two Hemalatha Jayaprakash was heard wailing as she was led down to the cells at Birmingham Crown Court, which heard she had supposedly not told her family what she had done.

The 44-year-old had worked at city centre-based Northwood estate agents for 12 years but made dozens of illegal transfers from business and client accounts to herself.

She claimed she used some of the money to pay her child's school fees and help relatives in India who lost their homes due to flooding.

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