A SCOTS supermarket worker has been accused of conning the National Lottery out of more than £50,000.
Melanie Davies allegedly tampered with tickets on a number of occasions to defraud the company out of £52,066.
The 35-year-old is alleged to have carried out the con on numerous occasions over almost a year while working at Asda in Dundee.
Davies, from, Brechin, is alleged to have repeatedly pretended to National Lottery that higher sums were due to be paid out on tickets.
It is alleged that she was working at the supermarket giant’s Milton of Craigie store between 23 August 2022 and 12 July 2023 when the fraud took place.
She allegedly induced National Lottery to pay out higher sums than necessary on winning tickets.
Davies did not appear when the case called at Dundee Sheriff Court today and the case against her was continued without plea until later this month.
It comes after a callous nurse pled guilty to embezzling thousands of pounds from a disabled children‘s charity.
Alan Thorburn admitted to stealing more than £17,000 to help fund his out of control gambling problem.
The 40-year-old was volunteering with the fundraising for the Dreamflight charity when he began transferring the organisation’s cash into his own bank account.
Thorburn, from Tranent, East Lothian, was confronted by charity managers after sums of cash raised by public fundraising events had gone missing.
And when interviewed by the police the 40-year-old nurse claimed he wanted to pay the stolen funds back and “asked for forgiveness”
Dreamflight is a charity that takes children with a serious illness or disability on “holidays of a lifetime” to Orlando in Florida and state the excursions can be “life-changing” for the youngsters involved.
Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told Thorburn was approached to help out with the charity by a former work colleague in 2014 as he had previously worked as a nurse in a children’s hospice.
Thorburn pleaded guilty to embezzling £17,106 while a volunteer with the Dreamflight charity, based in Buckinghamshire, between January 2015 and March 2018 when he appeared at court this week.