COP OUIZZED AFTER WIFE STEALS pounds 90K; Top brass grill husband over fraud.Byline: STEVE SMITH A COP has been quizzed by bosses after his fraudster fraudster Noun a person who commits a fraud; swindler wife stole more than pounds 90,000 from a luxury bathroom firm. Constable Raymond Thomson was grilled by top brass after wife Laura, 33, was arrested by his fellow officers over the scam. The accounts assistant, from Paisley, faces jail this week after admitting stealing pounds 92,263 from upmarket bathroom store Porcelanosa in just over a year. Thomson started stealing from the firm's showroom in Braehead, Renfrew, in June 2006 - a month before her wedding - and continued for over a year. The crooked clerk appeared at Paisley Sheriff Court on June 6 and admitted embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. . She will be sentenced on Tuesday. A police source said: "Bosses wanted to know if he had known anything about it." Strathclyde police said Thomson had not been suspended. The couple moved to Paisley from Campbeltown, Argyll. They were unavailable for comment. CAPTION(S): Cash swindle swindle v. to cheat through trick, device, false statements or other fraudulent methods with the intent to acquire money or property from another to which the swindler is not entitled. Swindling is a crime as one form of theft. (See: fraud, theft) : Laura Thomson |
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