Headmistress, 55, and her 長官 'used their cash-strapped school's 基金s to buy more than £9,000 価値（がある） of designer goods, art and antiques while ordering teachers to spend their own money on 供給（する）s'

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Headmistress Michelle Hollingsworth, 55, has been （刑事）被告 of defrauding her 最初の／主要な school of thousands of 続けざまに猛撃するs by creating 誤った 領収書s and using the money for lavish shopping sprees

A headmistress and her 長官 have been （刑事）被告 of spending thousands of 続けざまに猛撃するs of school 基金s on lavish shopping sprees.?

Michelle Hollingsworth and her 長官 Deborah Jones bought designer goods, antiques and expensive art with money from their cash-strapped school, Wolverhampton 栄冠を与える 法廷，裁判所 has heard.

Hollingsworth, 55, and 57-year-old Jones are said to have siphoned cash from Annie Lennard 最初の／主要な in Smethwick for five years by using the school's cheques and 偽の 購入（する） orders.

It is 申し立てられた／疑わしい they were the only two staff at the school with 当局 to input and authorise 支払い（額）s and the only two people with 接近 権利s to the fi nance system between June 2009 and October 2015.

Staff had to buy basic 構成要素s for pupils with their own money and a 支払う／賃金 rise was 拒絶するd to try to help balance the 調書をとる／予約するs at the same time as the two women and other 被告s were, 'defrauding hundreds of thousands of 続けざまに猛撃するs from the school's 予算,' 申し立てられた／疑わしい Mr Jackson, 起訴するing for Sandwell 会議.?

検察官，検事 Mr 示す Jackson said the pair travelled hundreds of miles to 排除的 boutiques and 蓄える／店s to buy expensive designer goods as far afield as Nantwich in Cheshire and Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

Mr Jackson said Hollingsworth spent more than £2,000 of the cash-strapped school's money on two oil 絵s, one of a beach and the other する権利を与えるd 船 at Moonlight.

He said: 'When questioned she seemed to say that she bought them for the school but kept them at her home.'

'All the time they were using the school's cheques to 購入（する） a wide 範囲 of goods, 非，不，無 of which were suitable for 最初の／主要な schoolchildren'

The Smethwick school's 長官?Deborah Jones stands と一緒に Hollingsoworth （刑事）被告 of buying designer handbags and artwork with the school money. The pair spent £6,000 on one shopping trip, Wolverhampton 法廷，裁判所 has heard

Along with the pair a number of other 被告s are in the ドッキングする／減らす／ドックに入れる 含むing Hollingsworth's husband and sister-in-法律 （刑事）被告 of 存在 part of the 詐欺.

Other 被告s have been 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d over （人命などを）奪う，主張するs they made over-inflated or fraudulent invoices for work which never took place at the 最初の／主要な school which is in one of the most 奪うd areas of Wolverhampton.

Headmistress Hollingsworth told her staff in the spring of 2015 that the school had no money because it had been short changed by the 地元の 当局, it was （人命などを）奪う，主張するd.

Mr Jackson said: 'The 長，率いる teacher used the school's money and petty cash as her own personal bank for years.?

Annie Lennard 最初の／主要な School in Smethwick, Wolverhampton, is cash-strapped and in one of the more 奪うd areas of the city

'It seems the 申し立てられた／疑わしい dishonesty of others was at her instigation or 招待.'

Annie Lennard 最初の／主要な in The Oval, Smethwick had an 拡張 built in 2014 and f ake 領収書s for 非，不，無-existent or grossly overpriced work 恐らく done were another money-spinner for the fraudsters, it was （人命などを）奪う，主張するd.

Nine 巡査-topped lampposts together with expensive York 石／投石する 厚板s were bought and Hollingsworth said? the school bought £63-a-tin マリファナs of paint because of a necessary 改造する after flooding.

Andrew Feltham, who ran the 二塁打 glazing company AB Windows and Burntwood Aluminium Systems, has 認める 存在 伴う／関わるd in a 共謀 to defraud, the 陪審／陪審員団 heard.?

Michelle's husband Joseph Hollingsworth (left), and Daniel Feltham (権利) have both 否定するd their 関与 in the 共謀

領収書s were 恐らく 'sanitised' to make the 購入（する）s appear more suitable for 最初の／主要な school pupils.?

A £130 designer 捕らえる、獲得する bought was transformed into five paint dryers and the shop's 指名する had the words 'education 供給（する）s' 追加するd to its 肩書を与える when the 法案 was submitted to Sandwell 会議, the 法廷，裁判所 heard.

The 購入（する） of a £875 wing 支援する 議長，司会を務める was said to have been ーするつもりであるd for use as a 物語を話す人／作家s' 議長，司会を務める in the school library but never arrived because of 明らかな health and safety 関心s.

Items were 恐らく put to one 味方する until cheques （疑いを）晴らすd and the pair 選ぶd up the goods rather than have them 配達するd 解放する／自由な to the school.

Hollingsworth's 57-year-old husband Joseph is （刑事）被告 of using his white 先頭 to 選ぶ up some of the items which were were then taken to their home in Cannock.

Joseph Hollingsworth pleaded not 有罪の to receiving fraudulent 支払い（額）s for work he or his 会社／堅い carried out at the school.

Fiona Dewsbury (left), Hollingsworth's sister-in-法律, has 否定するd conspiring to receive fraudulent 支払い（額）s while kitchen fitter Steven Roberts (権利) has 否定するd receiving 支払い（額）s for work he never 完全にするd at the school

The 長，率いる teacher's 53-year-old sister-in-法律 Fiona Dewsbury, is 雇うd as a teaching assistant at another school.

She pleaded not 有罪の to conspiring to receive fraudulent 支払い（額）s for the 供給（する） of goods or services connected to the 準備／条項 of special education needs at Annie Lennard School.

Daniel Feltham, 32, from Norton 茎s, 否定するs creating the 指名する of a company - Unique Building - 単独で for the 目的 of submitting fraudulent invoices for work 恐らく done on the school.

Kitchen fitter Steven Roberts, 老年の 59, from Coppice Barn, 広大な／多数の／重要な Saredon, Shareshill also 否定するs receiving fraudulent 支払い（額）s for work he had not done at the school.

School 長官 Jones has 認める conspiring with the headteacher - whose 指示／教授／教育s she （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have followed - to defraud Sandwell 会議 and Annie Lennard School.

But she 否定するd all 申し立てられた／疑わしい 詐欺s 伴う／関わるing other people.

Michelle Hollingsworth 否定するs the 共謀 （人命などを）奪う，主張するing to have not authorised a 選び出す／独身 購入（する） order and 嘆願d not 有罪の to all the other 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s brought against her.?

She and Jones left the school in 2015.

The 裁判，公判 continues and is 推定する／予想するd to last up to 12 weeks.

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