Postmistress ordered to pay back £100,000 to victims
A crooked postmistress has been ordered to hand over a total of £100,000 she made embezzling from her employer and a community group.
Carol Oswald has been told to pay thousands of pounds to the estate of one of her victims who has since died.
She was also told to pay nearly £90,000 to the Post Office which she embezzled to fund her gambling habit.
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis ordered confiscation of £100,000 Oswald had made from the proceeds of crime at Perth Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
Oswald is serving 40 months in prison after she was caught embezzling cash from her work, the owner of the Post Office, and a community charity.
Mr Culley told the court: "The money was taken from the Post Office account and put into her account and she gambled it. She just felt totally out of control.
"She accepts a significant amount of money was taken from the Post Office to fund that gambling habit. It wasn't a sophisticated, pre-planned fraud. She was out of her depth.
"She wasn't funding an extravagant lifestyle. She didn't have holidays. She lived in fear of being found out and it was inevitable she would be found out."