A Perth woman who illegally used a relative’s bank card was yesterday placed on a community payback order at Perth Sheriff Court.
Pamela Scrimgeour (26), of Tweedsmuir Road, admitted that between January 31 and March 13 last year at an address in Stanley Crescent, Perth, she presented a Lloyds TSB bank card in the name of another woman to an O2 UK employee and induced the employee to supply mobile phone credit in exchange and obtained £160 by fraud.
She also admitted that between March 9 and March 13 last year, at Cosby’s Takeaway, Crieff Road, Perth, she committed the same offence to obtain alcohol and tobacco and obtained £90.19 by fraud.
The court was told that the owner of the card was a relative of Scrimgeour’s.
“The relative suffers from dementia,” depute fiscal Robbie Brown said.
Sentencing Scrimgeour, Sheriff Michael Fletcher told her: “You have a bad record and this is a serious offence.”
