A couple are due to be sentenced over the theft of more than £100,000 from a children's football club.
Simon and Michelle Marshall, of Shaws Road in Birkdale, will be sentenced next month after a six figure sum was taken out of Phoenix Football Youth Club in Southport.
Michelle Marshall, 42, admitted to two charges in relation to her role in the the theft earlier this year, reports LancsLive.
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This included a count of fraud in which she transferred £70,185.60 of a grant awarded to the club from its account to spend on herself.
On that charge, she admitted fraud between January 8, 2017 and November 8, 2019.
On the second charge Michelle and Simon, 47, were both accused of fraudulently taking £41,619.41 from the club, which Michelle Marshall admitted and Simon Marshall denied.
That meant he was due to stand trial in January, while her sentencing was delayed pending the outcome of those proceedings.
However, Simon Marshall returned to Liverpool Crown Court last week and pleaded guilty two alternative counts of 'theft including by finding'.
The husband and wife will both be sentenced on January 13.
The football club has since been renamed, relocated and taken over by new people and regularly publishes its financial details.
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