FOOTBALLER FACES JAIL OVER NICKING £15k FROM GRANDPA
SCOTTISH football star Charlie Adam’s goalkeeper brother faces being sent to prison after stealing £15,000 from his grandad.
Grant Adam embezzled thousands from Charles Adam, 78, while he was supposed to be looking after his affairs.
The 30-year-old admitted helping himself to money from Charles’s Post Office account while he had power of attorney over the OAP’s finances.
Adam – brother of Dundee skipper and former Rangers and Liverpool star Charlie – was not present at Dundee Sheriff Court when his case was called.
He had originally been charged with embezzling more than £22,000 and pled guilty to the reduced sum of £15,000.
Adam, of Dundee, admitted embezzling the money at various addresses in the city between October 1, 2019, and January 6, 2020.
He also admitted that he “failed to act in accordance with the duties and powers conferred on him” as a continuing power of attorney for
his grandfather.
The court heard he withdrew the cash from a Post Office account and used it to pay for his own lifestyle.
Adam was a youth player at Rangers and featured six times for Scotland Under-21s. He has also had spells at several Scottish Football League clubs including St Mirren, Dundee, Forfar Athletic,
Dumbarton and Morton and represented Scotland at age-group level on more than 20 occasions.
He has made a total of 159 appearances for Scottish league teams and is now playing junior football for Dundee’s Lochee United.
Sheriff George Way deferred sentence until next month for the preparation of a criminal justice social work report and a restriction of liberty order assessment.
In September last year, Adam was admonished after admitting pushing his partner Kirsty Rowlands and repeatedly booting a patio door during a row at her home in Dundee’s Finavon Street.
He admitted acting in a threatening or abusive manner but escaped any punishment after the city’s sheriff court heard that he and Kirsty were back in a relationship.
Part of the charge – which alleged Adam pinned her against a wall, grabbed her mobile phone and deleted a video – was dropped by the Crown.
Adam’s solicitor Scott Norrie told the court: “Their relationship is back on track.”
In 2012, while he was with Rangers, Adam was fined £500 for chanting a sectarian slogan outside a nightclub.
He was arrested after being heard singing, “Hey, hey, f*** the Pope and the IRA” outside The Corinthian Club in Glasgow’s Ingram Street.
He also has a domestic assault conviction from Ayr Sheriff Court in 2014, when he was ordered to carry out 135 hours unpaid work in the community.