A cleaner is facing jail after she admitted stealing hundreds of pounds worth of electrical equipment from an independent school.

Sandra Costa, 37, swiped a Blackberry, iPods, an iPhone and a laptop computer from St John’s School, in Epsom Road, Leatherhead.

Costa, of Kingston Road, Epsom, pleaded guilty at South East Surrey Magistrates Court last week to eight counts of theft. She is due to be sentenced on Tuesday, September 21.