SHE is so ashamed of what she has done, she cannot bear to show her face in public.

Camera shy Louise Clarke, pictured right, found a novel way to cover up after admitting the theft of more than £150,000 from a major Southampton company.

Southampton Crown Court had heard that when the former finance supervisor should have been looking after her employer's accounts, she was systematically stealing from British American Tobacco.

Now she is facing a jail sentence after pleading guilty to 15 separate charges of theft, attempted theft and false accounting.

After the hearing Clarke, 35, rushed out of court in a crash helmet, dashed across a busy city road and jumped on the back of a waiting motorbike.