Renee Samone Davey, also known as Renee Kreckler, of Callan Avenue, Maryland, went on a month-long stealing spree this year, embezzling cash every day in April from Pretty Girl Fashion Group, a company trading as Wombat at Stockland Green Hills.

At the end of each shift Davey, who was employed as the store manager from February 28 until she was fired, was supposed to put the day’s profits into a banking bag before depositing them into the company’s account at the Westpac branch in the same shopping centre.

Instead the 39-year-old put the takings in her handbag and fed the cash through poker machines at bowling clubs in East Maitland and Beresfield.

The divisional manager of Pretty Girl Fashion Group approached Davey on April 28 after noticing several discrepancies in the banking records.

She denied allegations that she had stolen from the store and told her employer she had banked the money each day as required.

According to a police statement, a check with Westpac revealed no deposits had been made since April 6.

Central Hunter police were notified and Davey was arrested on April 28.

She confessed to police that she had a gambling addiction and played the poker machines every second day.

She said the addiction had led her to commit further offences to compensate for previous crimes and accrued debts.

Davey pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing as a clerk in relation to the missing $12,998.85.

She also entered guilty pleas to charges of making a false instrument, using a false instrument with intent, two counts of obtaining money by deception and passing a valueless cheque.

According to a police, she purposely bounced a $300 cheque at Maitland Music Specialists in February last year in order to buy a guitar package and amplifier.

She also forged her former partner’s signature on a second mortgage application in order to get a loan of $130,000 to pay off her gambling debts.

According to a police statement, Davey went to East Maitland court house in January last year to pay some of her outstanding fines and debts.

She passed two valueless cheques, written out for $4714 and $16,475, in a bid to buy time as she waited for her failed home loan application to be approved.

Davey told police her gambling addiction had led to the breakdown of her marriage, the accumulation of a large amount of debt and the decline of her health.

She will be sentenced on September 30.