A Fort William woman who was charged with fraud after using a deceased person’s bus pass to aid a woman suffering from dementia has been given an absolute discharge by a sheriff.
Caroline Watt, 57, of Camanachd Crescent, had pleaded guilty that between July 11, 2015 and June 16, 2017, while employed as a bus driver by Lochaber Action on Disability she had been in possession of a bus pass for a dead woman.
Watt had repeatedly presented the travel card to the onboard reader on a bus of which she was the driver when she knew the holder had died and £1,570.62 was therefore obtained by fraud.