A LORRY driver who used his company fuel card to fill up his private car with petrol was re-sentenced this week. Paul Fuller was originally given a 250-hour community work order and told to pay £335.25 compensation and £60 costs. But 44-year-old Fuller br

A LORRY driver who used his company fuel card to fill up his private car with petrol was re-sentenced this week.

Paul Fuller was originally given a 250-hour community work order and told to pay £335.25 compensation and £60 costs.

But 44-year-old Fuller breached the work order by missing five work sessions; so on Thursday that sentence was revoked.

Instead, he was given an 18-month supervision order with the probation service, and told to attend the Think First programme. He had already repaid the compensation to his former employees Bretts Transport.

Fuller, of Orchard Estate, Little Downham, had used the fuel card nine times to put fuel into his car, obtaining petrol worth between £16.50 and £57.45, said prosecutor Matthew Bradbury.

"At the time I was in financial difficulties," said Fuller. "I just did it, it was a stupid thing to do.