A CROOKED finance director who plundered almost £24,000 from a discount warehouse in Bradford and blew it on exotic sunshine holidays has been ordered to pay back her ill-gotten gains or face another nine months in jail.

Susan McCaffrey was imprisoned for 15 months in September last year after employees lost their jobs when the Price Pounder store in Wharfedale Road on the city's Euroway Industrial Estate, went into administration.

McCaffrey, 57, pleaded guilty to stealing £23,901 from the company, between June 25, 2012, and July 20, last year.

Staff who lost their jobs when the business closed down, in June last year, were at Bradford Crown Court to watch her being led off to the cells.

Yesterday, McCaffrey, of Lulworth Crescent, Leeds, was back in court for a confiscation hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Now released from jail, she sat at the back of the court, out of the dock, wearing a blue outfit.

Stephen Wood, barrister for the Crown, said the agreed benefit figure from McCaffrey's criminality was £35,978.

Judge David Hatton QC heard that she would have to sell her house.

Her victim, Price Pounder boss, Peter Lee, will be paid £24,609 in compensation.

McCaffrey was allowed six months to pay back the money or face nine months in prison in default.

After the case, Mr Lee, who attended the confiscation hearing with several employees who lost their jobs when Price Pounder went under, told the Telegraph & Argus: "It is not about the money. We'd rather she went back to prison for nine months."

At last year's court hearing, prosecutor Clare Walsh said McCaffrey was accounts manager at Price Pounder before she was promoted to finance director.

After discrepancies were spotted in the accounts, it was discovered she had stolen from the tills instead of banking the takings.

She had also written company cheques, both to herself and to finance companies she owed money to.

McCaffrey told the police she was struggling financially and living beyond her means.

She had five credit cards, each "maxed out" up to their £4,000 limit and a £7,000 loan.

The court heard she had holidayed in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco while stealing the money.

Her barrister, Abigail Langford, said McCaffrey, of previous good character, was now working for another employer in a financial capacity, and was once again trusted with a high degree of responsibility.