£516,000 swindler is ordered to hand back £80,000

Fraudster robbed two firms and cash from OAPs

- SALLY HIND

A greedy mum, jailed for swindling more than half-a-million pounds from two different jobs, has been ordered to pay back £80,000.

Stephanni Houston, also known as Bryden, was locked up for three years in 2023 after admitting swiping more than £516,000 from two construction firms over the course of four years.

The 41-year-old admin worker, from Ayr, was jailed for 38 months at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court after years earlier making a bleating apology in our sister paper, the Daily Record, for defrauding pensioners out of thousands at an Ayrshire care home.

Now prosecutors have been awarded a confiscation order to the sum of £81,589.86 - saying the mum could be pursued for more cash in the future.