Postie embezzled £45,000 to pay for designer goods

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Royal Mail employee embezzled £45,000 to pay for designer goods

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A Royal Mail worker who embezzled almost £45,000 said she would sell her house to help repay the money.

Angela Doran, 38, was placed under surveillance after parcels went missing from the sorting office and was snared on July 14, 2010 when she was caught with a parcel containing £2000 in her dungarees.

She admitted taking a second parcel and made other admissions which lead to a search of her East Kilbride home where police found a "large consignment" of expensive designer goods including shoes with a price tag of £300.

Doran pled guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to embezzling two special delivery packages totalling £4500 on the day she was caught. She also admitted embezzling a further 18 packages totalling £39,150 between May 1, 2008 and July 15, 2010, at the Glasgow Royal Mail Centre in Springburn.

She was due to be sentenced on Friday but it was deferred until later this year to allow her to try and sell her house to help her repay the money.

The packages that Doran embezzled were special delivery packages of cash that were sent from Post Offices in Scotland and went through the sorting office in Glasgow before being forwarded on to the Glasgow Cash Centre.

Each of the packages contained up to £2500, and money that was not forwarded on to the final destination by Royal Mail would be compensated to the Post Offices.

Procurator fiscal depute Deborah Carroll told the court: "The location where the packages arrived from into the mail office is significant because this banking process was known to employees, and the appearance of packages was certainly obvious in relation to what the contents were."

She added that Doran was subject to "direct surveillance" at the time because of an investigation into packages going missing.