A CLEANER who was mistakenly paid £36,000 managed to spend £17,000 of it within just two days.
Catherine McLean, 39, didn’t question her boss when the bumper pay packet landed in her bank account on April 2.
By April 4 she had spent almost half of the cash clearing her debts, but was stopped in her tracks when her employer realised the blunder.
But when the Edinburgh woman said she could only give him back £19,000, he called police.
McLean, of the city’s Broomhouse Gardens appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today (Friday) charged with stealing £17,000 from an address in the nearby Broomhouse Crescent.
She admitted the charge and was given time to pay back the money.
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