A STOURPORT cleaner has been jailed for deceiving people out of more than £20,000 and a string of other fraud offences – just months after avoiding prison for similar crimes.

Louise Sztybel, of Lower Lickhill Road, was locked up for two years following a hearing at Worcester Crown Court on October 5.

The 45-year-old pleaded guilty to one charge of obtaining £22,000 by deception and four other counts of fraud.

In February this year, Sztybel was handed a seven-month prison sentence which was suspended for 12 months after admitting the theft of her employer Elizabeth Hinton-Bowen’s necklace between May 2013 and February 2014 and two counts of fraud by making false representations to obtain loans.

At the latest sentencing hearing, Sztybel was given two years in prison for the deception charge and one year each for the fraud charges, to run concurrently. She was also ordered to pay a £100 victim surcharge.