A TESCO worker pocketed more than £2,000 in a scam involving goods she claimed had been returned by customers for refunds.

The fraud was carried out at a Dunfermline store over a four-week period.

Betsy Graham, 52, of Kenilworth Terrace, Lochore, has submitted a guilty plea at Dunfermline Sheriff court.

She admitted that between June 22 and July26, 2019, at Tesco, Winterthur Lane, she formed a fraudulent scheme by taking possession of unsold items, scanning them through a till as if they had been returned by a purchaser seeking a refund and removing from a till a sum of money to the value of the items.

She took possession of unsold items of stock, hid them near a till and when there were no customers or other members of staff present, she scanned the items as if they had been returned for a refund.

She then removed the sums of money involved and obtained £2,250 by fraud.

Sheriff Charles Macnair called for reports and Graham will be sentenced on Mar 3.