Mum's journey from addiction to recovery inspires others to live a life free of drugs

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There is still no escaping the historical newspaper headlines that shamed Lanarkshire mum Kerryanne Clarke for the reprehensible things she did while in the grip of addiction.Driven by the compulsion to fund a secret £180-a-day cocaine habit to which she’d been shackled for a decade, she embezzled over a period of nearly four years hundreds of thousands of pounds from two of her employers.At Glasgow Sheriff Court in 2017 and 2019, she pleaded guilty to separate but related charges of embezzlement while she’d been employed as a bookkeeper, office manager and financial controller.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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