Cosmetic clinic manager stole 58,000 to pay for treatments to ‘fit in’ [Video]

A cosmetic clinic manager stole nearly €56,810 (£48,683) to pay for treatments so she could fit in with her “beautiful” work colleagues, a court heard, writes Andy Dolan.

Rebecca Le-Clercq bought antiwrinkle injections, fat-freezing and hydrafacial treatments, and posted the results on social media to make herself look good.

A judge heard the 36-year-old also spent the money on trips to five-star hotels and Center Parcs holidays, as well as riding lessons and clothes for her two children.

Her defence barrister said that she had suffered from “imposter syndrome” when she found herself surrounded by “beautiful and confident women” at work and felt pressure to look like them.

But Judge Robert Pawson told Le-Clercq that she was “entirely selfish” and described some of her social media posts as her “cavorting around the place having fun”.

The mother-of-two was the practice manager for award-winning River Aesthetics, a private clinic in Bournemouth, offering “non-surgical …