Cop wife caged for swindle.A POLICEMAN'S wife who swindled her bosses out of pounds 92,000 was jailed for two years yesterday. Laura Thomson started embezzling cash from posh bathroom firm Porcelanosa almost as soon as she was given a job there. She was trusted to approve bank transfers to suppliers - but used one account to send money to herself. Thomson was rumbled when a supplier told her firm that bills had not been paid. Paisley Sheriff Court heard accounts assistant Thomson, 30, began working for Porcelanosa at Braehead, near Glasgow, in January 2005. She was supposed to transfer cash from the firm to suppliers but money went to her own bank account. Thomson resigned when she was confronted with evidence of the fraud. Separated At an earlier hearing, she admitted embezzling the money between February 2005 and October 2007. Yesterday, her solicitor Robert Vaughan For the American actor, see . For the American author, see . For the Blues musician, see . Robert Vaughan (1795 - 1868) was a minister of the Congregationalist communion, Professor of History in London University, 1830-43, and President of the Independent College, said it was "a particularly tragic case". He said Thomson was now separated from her "humiliated hu·mil·i·ate tr.v. hu·mil·i·at·ed, hu·mil·i·at·ing, hu·mil·i·ates To lower the pride, dignity, or self-respect of. See Synonyms at degrade. " husband Constable Raymond Thomson, although he remained supportive as the couple had a child. Mr Vaughan said his client was depressed at the time of the 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. and was "motivated by desire to provide additional security for her family". Sheriff James Spy told sobbing Thomson, formerly of Campbeltown, Argyll Argyll or Argyllshire, former county, W central Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Argyll was divided between the new Highland and Strathclyde regions in 1975, with most of the county becoming part of Strathclyde. , but now of Paisley, that there was no alternative to jailing her. He added: "The sum involved was large and this was a gross breach of trust." |
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