By Joe Latta on Sunday, 04 October 2020
Category: International

Courts worker Katherine Vaughan stole drugs and cash from evidence room

When police raided her home they found 1.7 kilos of heroin and 2.4 kilos of cocaine

October 3, 2020

A Crown Office employee who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash and drugs being stored as evidence in court cases has been refused bail.

Katherine Vaughan, 34, took £91,932 and drugs worth a further £147,720 from the procurator fiscal's office in Aberdeen between January 2011 and September last year. When police raided her home they found 1.7 kilos of heroin and 2.4 kilos of cocaine, as well as quantities of crack cocaine, MDMA, cannabis, ketamine and other drugs.