Fraud charges admitted

A LERWICK woman who admitted a string of fraud charges will learn her fate in February.

Dawn Smith, of 10 Cruester View, pled guilty at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday to a total of 17 offences between 27 February and 29 May last year.

The charges included pretending to be another person to induce companies, such as online retailers Amazon and Boohoo, to open accounts without permission and be sent goods by fraud.

The 24 year old admitted stealing a debt and credit card from an address in Sandwick, as well as pretending to Lerwick businesses such as The Peerie Shop and Klaize to be the holder of a debit card and using it to buy goods.

Smith also used a stolen debit card to take hundreds of pounds from cash machines.

In one instance she withdrew £300 in cash from the TSB bank at Victoria Buildings on Lerwick’s Esplanade by using a forged cheque.

Sheriff Philip Mann adjourned the case until 3 February for social work reports to be prepared.