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David Meikle

Thieving bookkeeper jailed after £90k swindle to fund £700-a-day gambling addiction

A crooked bookkeeper who plundered £90,000 from a construction firm to fund a gambling habit has been jailed for 28 months.

Andrea Cochrane, 52, worked as a trusted company secretary for more than 30 years but stole thousands to fund a £700 a day addiction.

She was fired after horrified bosses at A Steel & Son Contractors in East Kilbride, discovered a string of bogus payments.

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