Payroll manager jailed for £35,000 embezzlement

Eleanor Herd, 57, earlier admitted embezzling funds from Peel Ports Group’s Glasgow city centre office over a two year period.

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that she hid the money in the bank accounts of various family members.

As part of a complex scheme she diverted funds from the firm to five different relatives on 45 occasions over a two-year period.

This included £16,387 in her 79-year-old dad’s bank and £14,915 over 22 transactions into a daughter’s accounts.

She was caught when HMRC queried tax owed by employees and an internal audit was carried out.

She was jailed at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday after she admitted embezzling £35,654 at the firm’s Glasgow offices between January 2008 and March 2010.