Emma Hunt faces a jail time period when she is sentenced (Image: Alan McEwan)
An workplace supervisor who stole greater than £900,000 from her employers to fund a luxurious way of life – together with VIP days out at prime sporting occasions and five-star holidays – is dealing with jail.
Emma Hunt, 37, fleeced McLean Properties, primarily based in Edinburgh, by diverting hire funds into her personal account, permitting her to dwell like a millionaire on a £26,000 a yr wage.
She used the cash to deal with friends to VIP days out on the Six Nations and Scottish Open golf championship, take her mum on an all-inclusive Caribbean vacation, and purchase high-end garments.
Hunt additionally paid almost £40,000 to host a Halloween occasion at a sixteenth century citadel in East Lothian for 80 friends, Edinburgh Sheriff Court docket was instructed.
Her rip-off was rumbled when a tenant contacted the agency to question a request that they make hire funds to a brand new account.
An investigation revealed enormous sums in hire was being paid into an account managed by Hunt.
Throughout her trial, she callously lied that one of many bosses, who has since handed sway, let her have the cash in alternate for not telling anybody he was placing prostitutes up in flats.
A supply mentioned: ‘Hunt is a fantasist however she can be very intelligent. The best way she was in a position to preserve this fraud from being found for such a very long time reveals she knew what she was doing.’
She was convicted of embezzling £899,164.77 between 2016 and 2019. Hunt, who now lives in London, was additionally discovered responsible of fraud and transferring a few of the legal funds to her brother.
The courtroom heard the con began shortly after she started working as an workplace supervisor in 2016.
Jurors got a doc cataloguing how Hunt blew the money.
She spent £39,244 on a Halloween bash for round 80 individuals on the sixteenth century Fenton Tower, close to North Berwick, in 2018.
In 2016, she booked a birthday celebration for herself and 19 others at Musselburgh Racecourse in East Lothian for £3,000.
She additionally paid greater than £6,000 in 2017 and once more in 2018 on hospitality for 20 individuals on Girls’ Day on the identical racecourse.
Hunt additionally paid £300 per head for 12 friends to get pleasure from hospitality packages on the Scottish Open.
She paid £7,180 for 10 mates to get pleasure from an identical expertise at Murrayfield Stadium for the Scotland v England Six Nations conflict.
At the least £23,219 was spent on lodging at a string of prime accommodations throughout Edinburgh between 2016 and 2019.
Jurors have been additionally instructed about holidays Hunt lavished on herself, together with the Caribbean journey together with her mum between December 31, 2018, and January 10, 2019, which price £7944.
In 2016, Hunt paid £19,500 for a brand new Audi S1 Quattro which she traded in for a BMW M2. She additionally spent £6730.05 on the Louis Vuitton trend home.
Hunt additionally despatched £91,596 in 45 separate transactions to her brother’s farming contracting enterprise.
Sheriff John Mundy deferred sentence for reviews.
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