A British council worker has confessed to stealing $80,000 allocated to victims of the Grenfell Tower inferno.
Former finance manager for Kensington and Chelsea Council, Jenny McDonagh, 39, took £62,000 meant for survivors of the tragedy using pre-paid credit cards.
She spent the funds on foreign trips and expensive dinners in addition to online gambling.
Westminster Magistrates Court said on Thursday that McDonagh, from Abbey Wood, south-east London, pleaded guilty to two offences of fraud, one of theft and another of concealing criminal property.
The court freed McDonagh on bail. However, she was ordered to quit her current job as finance officer at a mental health charity and inform the police before taking on a new job.
McDonagh was also ordered to surrender her passport and wear an electronic tag until her trial.
She is currently under investigation for fraud at her previous places of employment.
Robert Simpson, a prosecutor to…