False-cheque man guilty
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AN ASSISTANT accountant s defrauded Eastern Scottist more than £2,000 in se months has been ordered tc 240 hours of community war In addition, William Wil (32), of Penicuik, was put probation for two years whei appeared at Edinburgh Sh Court and was ordered to re the money at £12 a week.
Wilson had pleaded not gt to defrauding the compan) £2,053 between December 1981, and July 7 last year. B jury took only 25 minutes unanimously find Wilson, has lost his job, guilty.
The court heard that the fr came to light when a bank ( ried the typing on a cheque £505. An investigation di vered that Wilson had ope an account under a false narr ,a building society and t forged a superior's signaturt requisitions for cheques to p man called "N. Trotter". son's palm prints were founc five building society w drawals.