A THIEF who stole more than £100,000 from a Worcester nursery is due in court today for sentence.

Sacked nursery bursar Jane Myhill is due to be sentenced today at Worcester Crown Court following the fraud which left her former friend and founder of the business devastated.

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The disgraced 55-year-old now of The Croft in Cromer, Norfolk, was working for the Worcester and Madresfield Early Years Centres which she stole £102,000.

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The mother admitted theft by employee and theft from a person when she appeared before magistrates in Worcester on January 21. The theft by employee involved £27,456 stolen from Alice Bennett in Worcester between April 14, 2015 and August 31, 2019. She is due to appear before one of Worcester's top judges, Nicolas Cartwright this afternoon.

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She further admitted theft in Malvern between January 1, 2015 and October 1, 2019, this time involving £74,721, also stolen from Alice Bennett. Mrs Bennett was battling breast cancer at the time of the theft.

Meanwhile, Shakur Hussain is due to appear before Judge James Burbidge QC for an ongoing proceeds of crime application following a high profile drugs case in which West Mercia Police thwarted the conspiracy to bring crack cocaine into Worcester. A city officer was injured in the line of duty as the conspiracy came to a dramatic conclusion in Worcester.

We reported last October how Hussain, the driver turned drugs chauffeur, had not paid back a penny of ‘criminal cash’ as the case ground to a halt.

Hussain was jailed in July 2018 after he ferried around drugs kingpin Asgar Khalfe and paid out thousands of pounds for apartments at Birmingham hotel City Nites so the rooms could be used as a crack factory. Yet he claims he made 'zero' cash and continues to resist attempts to claw back the money prosecutors say he made peddling class A drugs.

Judge James Burbidge QC warned counsel as long ago as last July that there would be ‘no further adjournments’ and set a date of October 28 last year for the proceeds of crime application to be resolved.

However, as the listing today illustrates, the matter has yet to be settled.

Officers swooped on Hussain’s taxi in Loves Grove in Worcester, near the city’s police station, on October 16, 2017. Inside the taxi was £1,890 of criminal cash and Hussain’s boss, Khalfe, described by the prosecutor as a ‘kingpin’ who used Hussain as cover to ‘stay under the radar’.

Hussain's arrest happened the same day a Worcester police officer was mown down by co-conspirator Christopher Franklin, then aged 35, during a failed getaway.

Hussain, 40, of Compton Road, Worcester, was jailed for four years in July 2018 after he was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to supply crack cocaine and heroin.

It is now well over two years on from his sentence at Hereford Crown Court. Hussain, now out of jail, continues to claim that the money in his bank account was earned by ‘legitimate’ means.

Hussain disputes the benefit figure calculated by investigators to be £65,066 – the amount the Crown Prosecution Service say he made for his role.