A FRAUDSTER mum who blew £37,000 in funds from a charity set up in memory of her dead brother has been ordered to pay back just £1.
Brazen Kayleigh Pepper splashed out on holidays and clothes with cash given by those mourning Richard Pepper – stabbed to death in 2015.
She was caged for 20 months at Hull Crown Court in March but is now said to have no money to cover the compensation for her crimes.
At a hearing on Thursday Pepper was ordered to pay a nominal £1 within seven days or face one day in prison in default.
The 37-year-old had previously claimed to have only £300 to her name despite gutting Richard's charity of money.
At a hearing in March, Pepper, now known as Kayleigh Towler, said she "never, ever in a million years" imagined that she would end up in "this position".
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Back then, Pepper admitted fraud by abusing her position as a trustee of the Rich Foundation.
The court heard she went on a shopping spree between July 1, 2018 and April 9, 2020 – splashing out on food and clothes that would be of no benefit to the foundation.
Prosecutor Ashleigh Metcalfe claimed at the previous hearing Pepper was, at that time, said to have fraudulently taken was £47,748.
The mum-of-two pleaded guilty on the basis that she took only £20,000 but this was not accepted by the prosecution.
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On the dayshe was jailed, the fraudster turned up to court with a £2,000 offer for compensation but this was turned down.
The sum – of which £1700 is believed to have been leant to her – has since disappeared.
Pepper had previously told how she was so broke her two young kids, then aged 11 and eight, were now sleeping on air bag beds.
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The mum – who was a well known anti-knife crime campaigner in her hometown of Hull – launched the Rich Foundation after Richard's murder.
Daniel Flatley, the killer who delivered the fatal blow to Rich's heart in east Hull, was jailed for 11 years for manslaughter.
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