Fraudster jailed | Farmfoods worker forged exec signatures to pay himself £275k from company accounts

A Farmfoods employee has been jailed after conning his employers out of £275,000 by forging directors' signatures on cheques.

John Brown scammed the supermarket chain while employed as a management accountant between 2015 and 2018.

The 61-year-old, who was based at the firm’s head office in Cumbernauld, Scotland, was jailed for 21 months after pleading guilty to fraud.

Brown admitted to a court that he had forged signatures on company cheques, which were written out to himself.