Peebles shop assistant who stole £3k through fraudulent scheme gets unpaid work

A PEEBLES woman who pocketed £3,000 of customers’ cash by fraud while working in a local food shop has been ordered to carry out 125 hours of unpaid work. Rachel Allison was also ordered to pay £1,800 in compensation and placed on supervision for one year as an alternative to custody. Selkirk Sheriff Court was told she pretended to process transactions through the till at The Super Store on Bridgegate in the normal way but stole the money instead.

The 38-year-old formed the fraudulent scheme between August 19 last year and January 6 this year. Sheriff Peter Paterson said the matter was made more serious by the fact Allison of Old Town had an analogous previous conviction..