Crook claimed stolen bank card belonged to her gran

An Airdrie woman who tried to withdraw cash using a stolen bank card faces a further delay to be sentenced for breaking her court order punishment.

Charlene McGuire took the card and pretended to staff at the Airdrie and Coatbridge branches of Clydesdale Bank that she was the carer and granddaughter of the card’s owner.

The 24-year-old was denied cash withdrawals by suspicious staff after chancing her arm at both Monklands banks in April 2014.

McGuire, who lives on Wellside Avenue, owned up to both offences and narrowly avoided being sent to prison when she was placed on a community payback order with 15 months’supervision and 175 hours of unpaid work at Airdrie Sheriff Court.

During McGuire’s sentencing the procurator fiscal said:“The card owner had an account with Clydesdale Bank and put her card into her purse, where she also kept a note of her pin number.

“The witness left the purse on her living room table and someone unknown took it and other property.

“At 9.20am on the day of the offences the bank employee was working on the cash desk at Clydesdale Bank in Airdrie when the accused tried to withdraw £800 from the cardholder’s bank card.

“The witness became suspicious that the accused wasn’t the card holder and questioned her, to which she replied that she was the cardholder’s granddaughter and carer.

“Later in the same day, at the Coatbridge Clydesdale Bank branch, the accused tried to withdraw £500 from the card and gave staff the same explanation, saying her grandmother had given her access to use the card.”

McGuire later owned up to breaching her community payback order and returned to the dock earlier this month but her sentencing was deferred until last Wednesday due to background reports being unavailable.

Sheriff Petra Collins continued the case until March 31 to call before Sheriff Frank Pieri, who had previously been involved in dealing with it.