A 20-YEAR-OLD woman who tried to buy herself a new car using her housemate’s bank details has been warned she faces a jail term.

Victoria Grieve tried to buy a Fiat 500 in a spate of offending which saw her cheat friends, family and colleagues out of tens of thousands of pounds.

She even got the details of a colleague’s bank account when the woman left her bag unattended while she went to the toilet at work.

Grieve also tried to get loans from Wonga using workmate’s details and got a hire car with a former boyfriend’s card, and damaged it leaving him to foot the bill.

Now, after branding her an accomplished fraudster, a judge at Swindon Crown Court told her he was considering a jail term.

Tim Hills, prosecuting, said the spree of 50 offences spanned from 2012 to earlier this year and totalled more than £25k and even included Grieve fleecing her own father.

He said the first charge related to the bank card of a man she briefly worked with at a recruitment agency being used to pay a £50 deposit on a DFS sofa.

The rest of the bill for the £469 settee was in her own name and due to be sorted out by a finance deal, but it fell through.

In July 2013 Grieve was working at Office Angels in town where she used a colleague’s card to make numerous purchases.

As well as spending at Cine-world, Miss Selfridge, Thomas Cook and Dominoes Pizza, she also made a loan application with the card on wonga.com but this failed.

He said that she had her bank card with her at all times apart from when she went to the toilet at work, which must be when Grievegot hold of it.

From August last year a woman who shared a house with Grieve found her card used in a string of transactions including Boots, iTunes, taxis, and pizza delivery.

“The most significant use was to apply for a loan of £11,408 for a new Fiat 500 motor car,” Mr Hills said.

He said her mum only found out she had been given as a guarantor when she found paperwork at the house after the application had been rejected.

Another former colleague found her card had been used to pay for a hotel room in Swindon, as did the defendant’s father.

In July this year she hired a car using her ex-boyfriend’s details leaving him with a £244 bill when she damaged the Nissan.

Grieve, who gave the court her grandparents’ address in Harewood, Middlesex, admitted six counts of fraud and asked for 44 others to be taken into consideration.

Stephen Parker, defending, said his client had experienced a number of difficulties in her life and said the court would be assisted by a psychiatric report.

Judge Tim Mousley QC adjourned the case to Thursday October 16 and granted bail.

He warned her he was considering jail saying ‘she’s an accomplished fraudster’.