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A former Royal Mail worker has avoided an imediate jail sentence after he stole more than £50,000 from customers.

Jonathan Brooking intercepted Special Delivery packages he had identified as containing money and took them home.

The 49-year-old manager, who began work with the company as a postman, took £50,160 over the space of 18-months, a court heard.

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Brooking was caught following an internal investigation and when asked why he had committed the thefts the had "lost his morals", WalesOnline reports.

Sophie Keegan, prosecuting, told Swansea Crown Court that Brooking joined Royal Mail in 2004 and that by 2022 was a customer operations manager at the firm's Bridgend sorting office.

She said Ro

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