BRAZEN £516K CROOK JAILED

Greedy swindler locked up for three years

- SALLY HIND

EXCLUSIVE CARE HOME THIEF UP TO OLD TRICKS

A GREEDY mum who swindled £516,000 from two different jobs has been locked up for three years.

Stephanni Houston, also known as Bryden, previously made a bleating apology in the Record for defrauding pensioners out of thousands at an Ayrshire care home.

But just over two years later she was back embezzling cash from bosses and this week the admin worker, from Ayr, admitted swiping more than £516,000 from two more firms over the course of four years.

She was jailed for 38 months at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court and prosecutors have launched a bid to claw back as much of the missing cash as possible.

A source close to the case said: "It's clearly a greed thing. Her car in the yard at work was better than the boss's car. Everyone was scratching their heads.

"She was sitting in a top-of-the-range Audi but no one thought for one minute what she was up to."