drugs from an evidence store has been jailed for more than three years. Katherine Vaughan, 34, of Aberdeen, worked as a production keeper for the Crown Office in the city when she embezzled more than £90,000 in cash and stole £147,000 of drugs - including kilos of heroin and cocaine - over nine years.
Among other stolen evidence items found in her home in Great Northern Road were sanitary pads, a stun gun, cigarette ends, chewing gum, jewellery, clingwrap and a safe.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard she used the money to buy expensive make-up and jewellery, as well as clothes, piercings and tattoos.Jailing the first offender for three years and nine months, judge Lord Beckett told her stealing items of evidence that her job required her to.
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