A bank worker who was remanded in custody after she was convicted of stealing £120,000 from a wealthy customer has had a bid for freedom thrown out of court.
Former Royal Bank of Scotland employee, Satnam Kaur, had her bail revoked after she was found guilty after trial of swindling Robert Brown out of cash.
During her evidence she had tried to convince the court Mr Brown had given her “hush money” after she claimed he sexually assaulted her.
However after a two day trial Sheriff Christopher Shead said he did not accept her evidence and found her guilty of two charges.
At the time the court heard that she had no alternative address to go to and the prosecution claimed she was a flight risk after around £80,000 of the illicit cash was transferred to a bank account in India.
And yesterday Kaur appeared back in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to apply for bail after her solicitor Peter Keene said he could provide the prosecution with an alternative address for her.
Mr Keene also claimed prison life was not treating Kaur well and said she had been assaulted in HMP Grampian and had to be moved to another jail for her own protection.
However Sheriff Shead threw the bail application out after he said the offence she committed was so serious it was almost certainly going to result in a custodial sentence.
She will remain in custody until she is sentenced next week.
The court previously heard Kaur duped Mr Brown into signing a blank banker’s draft, then plundered his account over a period of a month.
Kaur paid the money into the account of another customer – Robert Mann – before forging his signature on a blank cheque that was deposited in her own Lloyds TSB account.
The theft happened at Royal Bank of Scotland branch in Albyn Place, Aberdeen.
More than half the money was sent to an account in India.
Banking logs showed Kaur accessed the details of both customers on numerous occasions in the run-up to the theft.
Giving evidence at her trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, the 32-year-old claimed Mr Brown had given her the money because she threatened to report him to the police for touching her inappropriately.
Kaur, who formerly stayed in Fraser Place, Aberdeen, but has been living in Glasgow, claimed he offered to pay her cash in exchange for keeping quiet.