A west Belfast woman has been jailed for the second time in two days.
Maria Morelli was sentenced yesterday for stealing personal documentation belonging to residents of a care home where she worked for more than 18 years.
On Monday she and her partner Billy Byrne were sent to prison for carrying out a year-long blackmail campaign against a former neighbour.
The victim, a fireman, handed over between £15-21,000 and was left unable to pay his mortgage and lost his home.
Morelli was jailed for 20 months, with the same period to be served on licence after her release.
The 46-year-old, of Ross Mill Avenue, appeared again at Belfast Crown Court yesterday where she pleaded guilty a single charge of theft.
She admitted stealing documents from residents of the St John of God Association's Dympna House between April 1994 and December 2012.
The court heard that the offending came to light when police searched Morelli's house in relation to the blackmail case.
Various documents bearing information such as bank account details and social security numbers belonging to long-term residents were found.
Prosecuting barrister Gareth Purvis said Morelli worked in the care home for 18-and-a-half years but would not have had access to such information.
She told police she was studying for an NCQ Level 3 qualification and that she needed it to assist her in revision for the exam.
Mr Purvis told the court: "This is not accepted."
However, he confirmed that while it was a breach of trust on Morelli's part, she did not profit or gain financially from the crime.
Defence barrister Luke Curran told Judge Elizabeth McCaffrey that prior to the offence Morelli had "worked without issue for 18 years, providing care and assistance" to residents in the care home.
He also pointed out that the documents themselves had no value and there was no financial loss to anyone.
He said his client accepted "they should not have left the care home".
Passing sentence, Judge McCaffrey told Morelli: "It beggars belief why you thought it was appropriate to take these personal documents home with you."
Saying she accepted the documents were not used in any way to attempt to "gain profit of money", she handed Morelli a three-month sentence.
This will run concurrent to the jail term imposed on Monday for blackmail, which was unconnected to the care home.
The court heard that Morelli sent her victim a succession of text messages demanding money between June 2012 and May 2013, threatening to tell his employers about damage caused to her partner Billy Byrne's car following a dispute over a motorbike in the block of flats where all three once lived.
