A GARAGE boss stole £20,000 from the station’s tills – then gambled it all away in a failed bid to pay off her debts.
Irene Pow tried to take advantage by trying to fiddle with the books and kept three days of takings when one of the Shell garages she managed was closed for refurbishment.
But the 45 year-old’s boss noticed the discrepancies in the balance sheet and confronted her.
She admitted taking the cash and was suspended from the filling station near Edinburgh on the spot.
Yesterday (Tues) Pow pleaded guilty to embezzling the cash from Shell Garage in her home town of Newtongrange, Midlothian.
She will be sentenced next month.
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