The theft of £12,350 from the Lloyd Land Rover dealership in Kelso which employed him has landed 54-year-old Gordon Thomson in courtroom.

Thomson occupied a place of belief on the Land Rover dealership in Scotland when he took the cash between April and Could 2019, prosecutors knowledgeable Jedburgh Sheriff Court docket.

Thomson, of East Lothian, admitted the offences.

Sheriff Peter Paterson has delayed sentencing Thomson till February 2024 to provide him time to repay all the cash, however warned him he’ll nonetheless face punishment.

In a separate case, in 2022 a former Evans Halshaw worker who diverted 73 DVLA cheques price over £10,000 into his personal checking account averted jail in a fraud listening to at York Crown Court docket.

Michael Richards, an ex-employee of Pendragon’s Evans Halshaw Vauxhall dealership at Clifton Moor, close to York, had claimed that he had been making an attempt to safeguard the cash as a result of the cheques have been so outdated that they have been working out of time to be paid right into a checking account.

Richards was given an eight-month jail sentence suspended for 12 months on situation he does 80 hours’ unpaid work.