Elvis fan stole £500,000 in parking coins

Thousands of pieces of Elvis Presley memorabilia are up for auction after their owner was jailed for funding her passion for the King through larceny.

Excited fans are already studying a catalogue that could raise £500,000.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is putting the collection up for sale next month after confiscating it from Julie Wall, 46, who pleaded guilty to theft and was jailed for three years in 2005.



Working as a cashier for North Kesteven District Council in Lincolnshire, she was in charge of counting the weekly takings from the council’s eight car parks.

She took £10,000 in coins each month. She held back hundreds of pounds from each cash box then exchanged them for notes used in other council operations.

She hid the money in her handbag and simply walked out of the offices in Sleaford. Wall is thought to have stolen £557,327 and 11 pence between January 1996 and July 2005. A confiscation order was later made for £597,000.

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