Gloucestershire Live reports. She had pleaded guilty last month to two charges of theft from locals who invested in the pub’s Christmas savings fund.One charge stated that she stole £30,000 from the fund between December 1, 2017 and December 30, 2018 and the other that she stole £39,292 from the savers of the fund between December 1, 2018 and August 30, 2019.Johnstone also admitted a separate offence of fraud involving £30,000 between October 1 and December 30 2018.Judge Lawrie said her “persistent thieving” took place over two years and saw her defraud a friend, Ian Maxwell, of £30,000.He said she took advantage of the fact that he had inherited money due to a bereavement, telling him she needed the loan for investment purposes when in.