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16.06.2023 - 11:37 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A pensioner who conned elderly caravanners out of nearly £350,000 to prop up her failing business has been jailed for 12 months.
Motorhome dealer Christine Galloway left numerous victims thousands of pounds out of pocket by selling on their vans and keeping the cash. Galloway, 68, spent two years acting as a broker to dupe motorhome owners into handing over their vehicles for her to sell on.
Sheriff Alistair Carmichael said: "You pled guilty to a serious offence in which you obtained almost £350,000 by fraud over a 21-month period. Several victims of the fraud were elderly people who had put their trust in you to act honestly. Your business at one time was well-run and respected.
"This consisted of multiple individual frauds over 21 months and your actions were deliberate, calculated and organised. To adequately express society's disapproval and to punish you and deter others there is no alternative but a custodial sentence. I will take into account your age, the remorse you've shown and your lack of previous convictions."
In April we told how the motorhome scam victims called for Galloway to be jailed after they were robbed of their pension pots. Among them were retired paramedics Robert and Carol Moore, from Dunoon, Argyll, who handed their van to Galloway in 2018 and had never seen their retirement nest egg since.
Robert and Carol, both 66, agreed to sell their van to Galloway for £32,000 but realised something was wrong when they saw comments on the company’s Facebook page about it going out of business. It was sold for £27,250 but they never saw the cash.
The couple had invested their pension funds in the Peugeot Boxer and were relying on the sale to help fund a dream trip to Canada – which instead left them in debt.
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