A former employee of the Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association has been jailed for three years after defrauding the charity of £100,000.

Theressa Morrisroe, 51, of Talbot Road, Northampton, took advantage of her role as the charity’s purchase ledger clerk to transfer over £100,000 into her father’s account between 2010 and 2013. She reportedly did this by duplicating an invoice from a regular supplier. 

Morrisroe, who was sentenced yesterday at Northampton Crown Court, left the MND Association in February of 2013 and went onto defraud her next employer, Phoenix IT Group, using similar methods.

According to the Northampton Chronicle & Echo, the MND Association discovered Morrisroe’s crimes a year after she had left the charity, when a suppler complained they had not been paid.

In a statement to police after her arrest, Morrisroe said that she had committed the fraud because she was struggling financially. She also claimed that she “hated everyone” at the MND Association because they had “been horrible to her.”

Linda Cherrington, head of finance at the MND Association, reportedly read out a victim impact statement at the trial claiming that Morrisroe had “shocked everyone” associated with the charity. The MND Association refused to give any further comment.

Judge Lynn Tayton QC sentenced Morrisroe to three years: two for her crime against the MND Association and a further year for defrauding her subsequent employer.