The co-ordinator of a Brixton property company has admitted using the firm’s credit card for herself and transferring tenants’ deposits to her own account.
Tianna Melius, 23, worked at Lexadon, who also paid fees to a cleaning company she secretly ran.
Melius, of Queen’s Mead Road, Bromley appeared at Croydon Crown Court, where she will return for sentencing on May 3.
She pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by abuse of position to make gains of £6,200; £4,496.47 and £1,415.50 between January 14 and February 18, last year.
However, Melius claims even though she did not declare to her employer she was running Speedy Cleaners, which received funds from Lexadon, her benefit was not £6,200, but approximately £387.
Judge Peter Gower QC announced: “This is a case that is screaming out for a pre-sentence report.
“It is for the sentencing judge to decide what way to go on the basis of plea.
“It seems this is a case that may well cross the custody threshold, but equally may not do so.
“Every option of sentencing ing is open , community order, suspended sentence and immediate imprisonment.”
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