A former manager at an Aberdeen bar has narrowly avoided jail after embezzling more than £27,000 from his employers to feed his gambling addiction.
Over the course of a year, former police officer Conor Summersgill carried out hundreds of unauthorised transactions at Paramount in Aberdeen before pocketing the cash.
He was only caught out after another member of staff noticed he had refunded almost £2,000 in one night and questioned what he was doing.
Following an internal investigation bosses at the city centre bar discovered that between April 1, 2014, and February 7, 2015, he had embezzled a total of £27,760.
The dad-of-one, who was thousands of pounds in debt, then immediately admitted what he had done.
Yesterday Summersgill appe…
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