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Trusted Scots employee who embezzled £75k while boss was dying dodges jail
27.06.2024 - 11:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A callous finance worker who claimed her dying boss had given her permission to take £75,000 of company cash has dodged jail.
Marie Magunnigle, 64, was employed by roads firm Coneworx but investigations after boss John Tiffen passed away revealed she had plundered thousands from their accounts.
Magunnigle had been promoted to financial director to support Tiffen's daughter Ainsley, 32, find her feet as the new boss.
But a probe was launched after two payments of £1,000 were made to her account with no explanation.
An accountant found a string of discrepancies between November 2017 and September 2020 which were ruled 'deliberate and fraudulent'.
She was sacked in October 2020 before a further probe revealed she had swiped £10,000 as Tiffen lay in intensive care in hospital.
Magunnigle, of Wishaw, Lanarkshire, denied any wrongdoing and went on trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court but was convicted of embezzling £75,050 by a jury.
Sheriff Michael Higgins ordered her to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work and tagged her for the next 10 months as a 'direct alternative' to jail.
She was also put under supervision for 18 months.
Giving evidence to depute fiscal Rebecca Clark, Ainsley Tiffen told how her trust in Magunnigle had been shattered.
She said: "I fully trusted Marie and was shocked and surprised.
"It was very stressful going through the transactions and it showed Marie had paid herself an extra £10,000 on the day they were trying to put my dad onto a ventilator and she would have been fully aware of what was happening."
Tiffen added: "I feel like we were taken advantage of when we were in a very vulnerable situation.
"We fully trusted Marie to make sure the company was running as normal when we were more focused on my dad
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