A PARKING manager at Sevenoaks rail station who stole more than £136,000 has been jailed for four years.

Alan Hall took about £44,000 a year in coins from car park ticket machines while working for Meteor Parking, which manages Southeastern's car parks, a court heard on Monday.

The 65-year-old admitted theft. Partner Tracy Scott, 34, admitted acquiring criminal property.

She escaped jail but was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment suspended for two years and unpaid work totalling 175 hours.

Hall was captured on CCTV on several occasions putting his hands into cash-counting machines and taking money out and placing it into a bag.

He was arrested in 2009, his car searched and found to contain £263, a sum similar to that day's cash shortfall.

A financial investigator assessing the couple's accounts later found close to £100,000 of unexplained funds.

Prosecutor Anne Phillips said Scott's involvement had been valued at £50,000.

The prosecutor told Judge Jeremy Carey the money missing from the total stolen had gone into their children's accounts, a £11,000 car and Hall, from Barleycorn, Leybourne, had lost some through gambling.

Judge Jeremy Carey said at Maidstone Crown Court Hall had breached his company's trust.