A CONWOMAN who went on a £4,500 spree with her stepmother’s bank cards has been spared jail.

Recovering alcoholic, Tracey Bryan, 43, used Christine Cronshaw’s debit and credit cards and also applied for Asda and Marks and Spencer credit cards after the victim and the defendant’s father had given her a home.

Bryan, who previously lived in Austria, then went out spending in the seven-month scam, running up a £3,015 bill at Marks and Spencer, Burnley magistrates heard.

Bryan, now an Alcoholics Anonymous volunteer, was said to have funded her day-to-day living and paid off debts with the cards.

The jobless defendant, of Edenwood Road, Stubbins, admitted four counts of fraud by false representation, at Burnley, between December last year and July.

The bench, who told her she should be ashamed of herself, gave her 16 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, with nine months’ supervision and 60 hours’ unpaid work.