A CHILDREN'S nursery finance manager has been jailed for more than two years after economic crime investigators were able to uncover the vast scale of a fraud.

Kerry McGavigan worked for The Enchanted Wood Nursery, which is based in Benfleet, for seven years.

She had sole responsibility for the nursery’s accounts and raised numerous false invoices for work which was either never carried out or was carried out but for a fraction of the bill. All of the money associated with those fake invoices was paid into her own accounts.

The former finance manager also spent about £20,000 using the company credit card incorrectly.