A fraudster has been hauled before the courts again after using a customer's credit card to pay for a holiday to Menorca while she worked at a city centre hotel.
Rebecca Waterfall, 31, previously defrauded a travel agent she worked for to the tune of £22,000.
She offered friends discounted holidays to destinations including Cuba and Switzerland, and enjoyed a trip to Australia with her boyfriend.
Waterfall, from Salford, also pocketed £5,000 which a family had paid her to go to Disney World in Florida.
They had to be pulled out of a check-in line by police at Manchester airport, after the crime committed by Waterfall, a 'family friend', was uncovered.
After going on to work as a 'guest relations executive' at the Principal hotel in Manchester, Waterfall fraudulently used the credit card details of a man who was booking a New Year's stay with his wife, in 2018.
She used his card details to pay £1,459 for a week's stay at a 'premium holiday villa' in Menorca in October 2018, with her partner and child.
Waterfall also used the man's card to buy £148 worth of shopping from Asda, and paid £515 to a currency firm.
She also bought a child's sun hat worth £15.99, and a Minnie Mouse poncho towel for £12.48 from Amazon.
The victim had the money refunded.
After voluntarily attending a police station, Waterfall claimed it had been an accident, and she had no knowledge of the transactions.
Waterfall, a mum-of-two, initially received a suspended sentence in January 2017 for the fraud committed while working for Cheshire based travel agent Incentivise.
The court heard she had paid the money back to the family.
They had to pay again to board the Florida bound flight.
At the Manchester Crown Court hearing on Monday, it emerged she was later jailed for nine months in January 2019, after failing to comply with the suspended sentence.
Now she has received a community order, after a judge said it would be 'wrong' to jail her again.
Judge Nicholas Dean QC said she would likely have received a longer sentence when her suspended sentence was activated, if that judge had been aware of the most recent fraud.
"It seems to me it would be wrong now to send you to prison, and I am not going to do that," Judge Dean told her.
The court was told that Waterfall has applied to enrol on a nursing apprenticeship.
But the judge said he believed she may have 'made up' the application.
"It is hard to resist the conclusion this has been made up to present a less worrying aspect of her personality to the court," Judge Dean said.
Describing her as an 'intelligent young woman', the judge told Waterfall: "You are prone to give way to greed and opportunistic dishonesty.
"You must learn to resist such temptations if they are in front of you."
Imposing the community order, the judge continued: "With some doubts about the wisdom of this course, and as to whether you really have turned a corner, as the probation service seem convicted that you have, I am going to impose a 12 month community order."
Waterfall, of Victoria Road, Salford, admitted five counts of fraud.
