A STOLEN credit card was used to fund a spending spree by a group of young people, a court heard.
Goods worth £1,981, all selected for their easy re-sale value, were bought with the card at Gateshead's MetroCentre and Team Valley, and at Chester-le-Street, County Dur-ham.
Keith Mark Brand, 21, and Emma Louise Wright, 19, have already admitted playing a part in the use of the card.
They pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud Barclays Bank at a previous hearing at Durham Crown Court.
They returned for sentence yesterday, but the case was again adjourned as proceedings are still pending against two other defendants who have denied the charge.
Brand, of no fixed abode, but previously living at a Darlington guest house, was remanded in custody, while Wright, a residential care home worker, of Gladstone Street, Crook, County Durham, was granted bail.
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