Crown Office employee took cash and drugs from evidence stores
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A former Crown Office employee has admitted taking hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash and drugs from the procurator fiscal’s office in Aberdeen.
Katherine Vaughan, 34, pleaded guilty to a single charge of embezzlement before Lord Beckett at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday.
As well as taking £91,932 in cash and drugs worth £147,720, she also removed weapons, CCTV footage, audio tapes, DNA samples and other items and documents.
Ms Vaughan was remanded in custody pending the preparation of a psychiatric report and will return for sentencing on Wednesday 28 October.
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