Loan Agent Dodges Prison

An agent for a credit company, who admitted defrauding the business by creating fake loans, escaped prison with a suspended sentence today.

Denise Hanshaw, 47, of Biggin Hill, Upper Norwood was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court (pictured) to eighteen months imprisonment, suspended for two years.

She had been committed for sentencing after pleading guilty before magistrates.

Hanshaw was charged with fraud by abuse of position, namely that between May 20, 2009 and January 10, 2011 while an agent for Provident Personal Credit she persuaded customers to take out loans in their own names, which were for her benefit.

She was also charged with fraud by false representation between the same dates, namely lying to Provident Personal Credit that names on loan applications were genuine people, with intent to make money for herself.