Sin Bin: Accountant avoids jail by paying back £60,000 embezzled from veteran’s charity
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An accountant who embezzled nearly £60,000 from an armed forces charity has managed to avoid a prison sentence by paying back all of the money he stole.
Derek Armour, 58, admitted taking the money from the Edinburgh-based Scottish Veterans’ Garden City Association while he carried out voluntary work for them.
The offence, which involved a total amount of £59,171.22, happened at Armour’s Peebles home between May 2014 and March 2015.
Selkirk Sheriff Court heard that Armour, who was described as a full-time carer for his mother, had made a full repayment of the sum involved.
He was given an 18-month community payback order of 200 hours unpaid work.
Sheriff Peter Paterson told him: “This is an unusual matter.
“If you had not made full restitution to the charity a custodial sentence would have followed.”
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