Overview
- Karen Lawrence received 300 hours of unpaid work, two years of supervision, a six‑month 8pm to 6am curfew, and a 10‑year ban on contacting her husband at Ayr Sheriff Court.
- Prosecutors said she used a fake male voice on phone calls to a mortgage firm and a pension provider to take £99,659.12 in her husband’s name.
- Three mortgage calls in July 2019 led to a £54,557.47 payout into the couple’s joint account, with £54,000 moved to other accounts between August 13 and 16, 2019.
- Six calls to the pension company extracted a further £45,101.68 using the same impersonation tactic.
- The Crown Office called her actions a serious betrayal of trust, while the defence said she sent the money to a fake online romance fraudster.