Central Scotland News AgencyA lady who stole £86,000 from a charity arrange in reminiscence of her finest pal's daughter has been given three months to repay the cash.
Lindsay McCallum, 61, ditched it over the course of a decade after beginning the charity Rainbow Valley with former pal Angela McVicar.
He additionally embezzled £9,505 from the Anthony Nolan Trust – a stem cell donation charity.
McCallum, who was jailed for 3 years in October, has already repaid the £25,000 he stole from his former pal.
Mrs McVicar stated outdoors court docket that she was happy the settlement had been reached, including: “The court has given us justice.”
It was feared that if legal confiscation had been ordered, the remaining cash would have gone into the treasury to repay McCallum.
Falkirk Sheriff Court was advised it had been agreed with McCallum's legal professionals that confiscation proceedings needs to be placed on maintain till March to permit him to repay the remaining cash owed – £60,000 to Rainbow Valley and £9,505 to the Anthony Nolan Trust. Can be given an opportunity.
Lawyer Sarah Loosemore stated McCallum, who was not current in court docket, had undertaken to take action and easily wanted three months to clear the funds.
She stated: “The best place for this money is to send it back to charity.”
Mr Rashid stated if the cash was repaid by March 2025, the court docket motion can be withdrawn by the Crown below the Proceeds of Crime Act.
A court docket beforehand heard that McCallum, of Aberfoyle, Perthshire, solid the signatures of charity workers and redirected money from fundraising accounts for her personal use between 2011 and 2021.
She was advised by a sheriff that she had “systematically and deliberately” dedicated “calculated” fraud on third sector organisations, and had “defrauded” most cancers victims.
McCallum labored as fundraising supervisor for the Anthony Nolan Trust from 1995 to 2012 earlier than leaving to arrange Rainbow Valley with Mrs McVicar.
In 2005, Mrs. McVicar misplaced her 27-year-old daughter Johanna to leukemia and the muse was established in her honour.
The pair labored collectively for 10 years earlier than breaking apart in 2022.
Mrs. McVicar later found discrepancies within the account arrange for the fundraising.
In complete McCallum took £85,978 from Rainbow Valley.
The court docket heard McCallum was made Rainbow Valley's undertaking improvement supervisor and was given a charity bank card to make use of a Friends of Rainbow Valley checking account in 2014.
But the account remained in use and till August 2022, after a disagreement between associates, transactions from this account have been questioned.
McCallum – a former Royal Navy servicewoman – pleaded responsible to 2 fraud expenses totaling £95,483.
Additional reporting by Central Scotland News Agency
With inputs from BBC
