A home carer stole £4,900 from a couple in their 90s who suffer from dementia.
Kirsty Ritchie took two debit cards from a house at Abbotsford Place, Galashiels, on April 2 and used them on numerous occasions between April 2 and July 2 to obtain the money from a cashpoint in the town’s Gala Park.
The offence came to light when the daughter of the elderly couple – aged 91 and 92 – noticed unauthorised transactions.
Ritchie also obtained goods worth £4,451 by fraud from Amazon.co.uk between April 23 and June 27 by pretending she was the holder of a debit card owned by a 41-year-old woman.
Ritchie, 28, of Gala Park Court in Galashiels, admitted the offences and sentence was deferred until January 6 for reports.