'TOUR OF SCOTLAND' FRAUDSTER STILL TO PAY BACK £130k

John Martin Fulton • Published 9 Dec 2009 14:00

A SERIAL fraudster who embezzled £130,000 from an Irvine firm will have to

explain why he has failed to pay a penny back to them.

Accountant Robin Sim Jenkins, a prisoner at Bowhouse jail, admitted scamming his employers at Plastic Mouldings Ltd, Ailsa Road, between April 2000 and February 2006 to the tune of £130,000.

Jenkins, 55, was sentenced to 45 months imprisonment last June.

He also pled guilty to missing a court date - while going on a "tour" of Scotland with the proceeds of his crime.

When he appeared back in court soon after originally being sentenced he was ordered to pay back the full sum he scammed within nine months.

However, he appeared in court last week after it was revealed he had not paid

back a single penny.

Last year Jenkins had also been sentenced to 20 months in jail in connection with a separate fraud - after embezzling £85,000 from a sawmill in Falkirk.

During his trial his lawyer told Falkirk Sheriff Court jthat he had embezzled funds to fund an "extravagant lifestyle" -

going so far as to visiting all the places in Scotland he had ever wanted to

visit after the Irvine case came to light.

His lawyer told the court in the Falkirk case that most of the money had been spent and that there was 'no prospect' of repayment.

Jenkins was also jailed for embezzling £176,525 from Barclays Bank in 1996.

The case at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court was ajdourned for further consideration

until later this month.

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