A surgery manager has been ordered to pay £41,000 in compensation after she stole £155,000 from a medical practice while having an affair with a doctor.
Jacqueline Rodger had a secret relationship with Dr Iain Hathorn while they both worked at the surgery.
The affair ended when Rodger got married but their relationship was unveiled after an investigation was launched into cash issues at Greenhills Medical Practice in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire.
Rodger admitted stealing £155,012.71 between April 2014 and February 2018 and was jailed for 18 months last year.
The affair ended when Rodger got married but their relationship was unveiled after an investigation was launched into cash issues at Greenhills Medical Practice in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire
PAHowever, she was released from HMP Edinburgh on a tag in March after serving less than a third of her sentence.
As part of a confiscation order, she was ordered to pay back £41,157.50.
Hamilton Sheriff Court heard that the money had come from the sale of a house.
The 56-year-old claimed to have taken the money due to stress and told Hathorn by text message: "Iain, it's Jacqueline. It was me that did it. I'm so sorry, so ashamed. You're all such lovely people."
She alleged that she was forced into the relationship, but following a police investigation, her allegations were dismissed.
Rodger, who had worked at the centre since 2008, had been moving money to her own account disguised as fake payments to locum doctors and office supply firms.
The medical centre was forced to close after the money was stolen.
Sheriff Linda Nicolson said: "I will make an order directing the entirety of the compensation has to be paid out of the confiscation order I have granted."
The medical centre was forced to close after the money was stolen
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She was initially accused of stealing £224,375.39, but prosecutors accepted her guilty plea to the lesser amount.
Kenny Donnelly, deputy crown agent, said: "This woman's crimes caused significant disruption to a community's GP services.
"This compensation order should serve as a warning to anyone involved in financial crime of any kind that we will not stop at prosecution.
"Even after a conviction is secured, COPFS will continue to use Proceeds of Crime legislation to ensure that funds obtained through embezzlement are confiscated and compensation awarded where appropriate to the victims of such crimes."
