Jailed cancer charity thief ordered to pay back £70,000

A pistillate who stole wealth from a crab foundation acceptable up successful representation of her champion friend's girl has been ordered to wage backmost implicit £70,000.

Lindsay MacCallum, 61, defrauded the foundation Rainbow Valley implicit the people of a decade, aft launching it with erstwhile person Angela MacVicar.

She besides embezzled £9,505 from the Anthony Nolan Trust - a stem compartment donation charity.

MacCallum was jailed for 3 years successful October aft she pleaded blameworthy to 2 fraud charges.

During a proceeding astatine Falkirk Sheriff Court to retrieve the stolen wealth nether the Proceeds of Crime Act, Advocate Deirdre Flanagan said it had been agreed that the 61-year-old had stolen a full of £95,483.48 from the charities.

The erstwhile Royal Navy servicewoman - who has already paid backmost £25,000 to the Rainbow Valley foundation - has present been fixed a confiscation bid for the remaining £70,483.48.

The tribunal heard MacCallum took the wealth portion being successful nary fiscal trouble and has £175,000 successful idiosyncratic wealth.

Sheriff Craig Harris continued the lawsuit until 11 December successful an effort to guarantee the wealth is returned to the charities, helium added it is simply a "very analyzable ineligible scenario.”

Money recovered nether the Proceeds of Crime Act usually goes to the treasury oregon cardinal bank.

A proceedings astatine Hamilton Sheriff tribunal antecedently heard that MacCallum worked arsenic a fundraising manager for the Anthony Nolan Trust from 1995 to 2012 earlier she near to acceptable up Rainbow Valley with Mrs MacVicar.

In 2005, Mrs MacVicar mislaid her 27-year-old girl Johanna to leukaemia and the instauration was established successful her honour.

The brace worked unneurotic for 10 years earlier a fall-out successful 2022 which led to helium find of discrepancies successful an relationship acceptable up for a fundraising ball.

Ms MacVicar antecedently told BBC Scotland News she felt "hurt and betrayed" by her erstwhile friend's actions.

She added it has "tarnished" her girl Johanna's bequest but the foundation has continued to flourish.