Financial adviser jailed after forging his own mother’s signature to buy flat

Greig Thomson, 38, who carried out the fraud to get a £180,000 mortgage for the flat in Dundee, was caught when he defaulted on the loan and lawyers demanded £80,000 from his mother.

Thomson’s mother then called in police having realised the loan agreement had been signed by her son without her permission.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard Thomson had been working for Aberdeen Mortgage Management in Dundee when he carried out the fraud in 2007.

The £180,000 flat was repossessed in 2014 and eventually sold for £126,000.

Sheriff Brown told Thomson, of Wellgrove Street, Dundee, he would have jailed him for a year but for his early guilty plea.