A MOTHER-OF-THREE was told yesterday that she is likely to be jailed for a fraud involving more than £28,000, which left others in her community heavily out-of-pocket.

Rachel Allday used personal details and documents from her victims in Guisborough, east Cleveland, to make a series of false claims to obtain cash and goods.

She stole information on the accounts of at least eight people by using a rod with a “grabber”

on the end, and a croupier stick, to take items of post from their homes and a bank.

Allday, 36, admitted two charges of fraud at a hearing in July, and yesterday pleaded guilty to a further five allegations when she appeared at Teesside Crown Court.

She was told by Judge John Walford that she will be sentenced late next month once background reports have been prepared by the Probation Service.

Allday was given bail until her next appearance, with conditions to report to police every weekday, observe a 9pm to 6am curfew and live at Scaling Court, Guisborough.

Judge Walford said: “Don’t be misled into thinking that a prison sentence is not the most likely outcome simply because I am calling for a report and granting bail. You have had the good sense to plead guilty to the entirety of this indictment, and that will go in your favour when sentence comes to be passed.

“These are obviously very serious offences and the most likely sentence is one of imprisonment.

I want you to fully understand that.”

Allday admitted a total of four fraud charges and one each of acquiring criminal property, transferring criminal property and possessing articles for use in fraud.

All of the offences on the indictment were carried out between June 2007 and April last year, and amounted to more than £28,000, the court heard.

Allday’s barrister, Peter Johnson, said she insisted that she was joined by another in the crimes, and named them, but the police have been unable to find the person.