Construction worker Steven Burke showed restraint by spending only £28,000 on a new car, online gambling, clothing, an e-cigarette, cocaine, a gold chain, alcohol, and hotels after his employer accidentally overpaid him £40,000, reports The Mirror.
Burke normally gets a regular direct deposit of £446.60 in his bank account, but the director of the company he works for misplaced the decimal, so he received £44,660. When the error was discovered and Burke was questioned by police, he told them he thought he "had been a lucky victim of cyber crime," reports the Mirror.
Burke's sentencing is scheduled for July 25.
