News In Focus
12 February 2010
Fraudulent sheriff clerk sentenced to two years
A former sheriff clerk who carried out a £130,000 fraud by falsifying juror expense forms and fee payments for non-existent medical reports was jailed for two years yesterday.
Graeme Wilson (29), who carried out the frauds while employed at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, was sentenced at the court where he used to work.
Wilson pled guilty to forging signatures on 206 false juror expense forms, which netted him a total of £52,000, and to taking a further £78,000 in fees for the supposed doctors' reports.
He used the money to support a lavish lifestyle, claiming to colleagues that he earned money as a semi-professional rugby player, but was caught when he tried to carry on the frauds after leaving the court service.