Ruth Akinyemi, 23, passed on the personal details of eight account holders enabling co-conspirators to plunder their funds.

A young Barclays Bank clerk at the centre of an "alarmingly simple" £500,000 identity fraud against customers has been jailed for 18 months.Economics graduate Ruth Akinyemi, 23, passed on the personal details of eight account holders enabling co-conspirators to plunder their funds.Akinyemi, of Park Road, Enfield, north London was 18 when she first took part in the scam, helping steal more than £100,000 from a single customer.