Coleen Muirhead was jailed for 40 months after pleading guilty at Edinburgh High Court.
A Scots grandmother who embezzled more than £1.5 million from her employer's business was jailed for 40 months.
Lord Fairley told her she would have faced a five year jail term but it would be modified to three years and four months imprisonment following her guilty plea. The judge said he had noted childhood trauma experienced by the first offender and mentioned in a background report prepared on her. Muirhead, of Farquhar Road, Aberdeen, a mother of four and grandmother to seven, admitted to police after her arrest that she was responsible for creating false accounts and stealing the money from the firm.
Top news stories today Mr Gilmartin said: "This offending behaviour started off as a small matter and escalated quickly." Mr Gilmartin said: "She is fearful of custody, but accepts she committed the offence and requires to be punished." Mr Dickson said: "During the course of the years following the accused beginning employment with Panda Rosa, another employee, who was responsible to for instructing payment of the accused's wages, became aware that she went on expensive holidays with her family, paid for a full table at a charity event, purchased alcohol for those attending the event and bought new motor vehicles."
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