A former employee at the Bank of Bermuda HSBC has admitted to stealing $5,000 from a customer's account.

Kaenon Burchall, 19, of St. George's, pleaded guilty to forging a customer's signature and to a second offence of transferring $5,000 into her own account on March 12.

Magistrates' Court heard that investigation managers at HSBC on Church Street were alerted to money missing from a client's account. Then on March 22, they discovered the money was transferred into Burchall's personal savings account, which she had sole access to.

The next day several staff members at the bank met with the defendant and informed her of the alleged offence.

She was immediately terminated from her post and Police were informed.

On May 21, she was interviewed by officers, but made no comment. However, in court on Friday with her mother present, Burchall admitted her part in both offences.

Burchall, who has no previous convictions, was ordered to appear back in court next month for sentencing.