THE wife and daughters of a crooked bank manager face homelessness as a result of his crime.

Simon Dinnage, who was manager of the Lloyds TSB branch in Verwood, was jailed for 12 months and ordered to pay back the £18,000 he fraudulently borrowed from his own bank.

Now his estranged wife Samantha White and her two daughters could be made homeless if she is forced to sell her family home, which they bought 10 years ago.

Samantha, 39, has lived in the property since childhood and bought the home from her parents.

After splitting with her husband six years ago, she has continued to live at the house with Madelaine, 11, and seven-year-old Jasmine, plus their two dogs.

But Samantha fears her family will be left with “nowhere to go” after receiving a letter from Dinnage’s solicitor asking how she plans to pay her husband for his share of the house in Itchen, Southampton, in which he has £46,000 equity.

Dinnage pleaded guilty last year to fraud by abuse of position and was handed a 12-month jail term.

The bank recovered £8,575 that Dinnage had not spent, but following his early release in February, it is now demanding the remaining £9,425.

But Dinnage’s only asset is the home he once shared with Samantha.

Samantha, who works as an administration assistant at a GP practice, said: “I get that the bank wants their money back, but in the grand scheme of things, are they really going to put my children out of their home and my childhood home for the sake of £10,000?

“Surely they can find another way until my children are 18. Don’t destroy our lives now.

“I’ve been to the bank but they won’t lend me any more money. What else can I do?

“I’ve worked so hard to support my children and keep them in a happy home. Now we’re going to pay for his crime. It’s not right at all.

“They will have to drag me out kicking and screaming.”

Samantha, who is taking anti-depressants, said her eldest daughter Madelaine, a pupil at Ludlow Junior School, was also “in bits”.

She added: “She’s really struggling.

“She’s in tears already. She doesn’t want to leave.”

Lloyds TSB was unable to comment while the case was ongoing.