A Dunfermline woman who was placed on the Sex Offenders Register following a room-renting scam has breached her notification requirements.
Louise Ramsay was jailed for more than 10 months after failing to tell police of a new bank account.
The 34-year-old opened the Nat West account, despite rules preventing her from doing so without permission.
The illicit account was discovered during a financial check.
Fiscal depute Lauren Pennycook told Dunfermline Sheriff Court: “She explained that she used that account to transfer money so she felt safe asking her friends to go shopping for her using her card.”
Solicitor Aime Allen, defending, said Ramsay has mental health issues and was aware a custodial sentence was inevitable.
Ramsay, of Kellock Avenue, Dunfermline, admitted failing to comply with notification requirements between March 21 and July 16 this year.
She further admitted unrelated charges of assault on May 24, behaving in a threatening and abusive manner on July 21 and possession of a knife in public on August 21 last year.
She was jailed for 10 months and two weeks.
Flat cash scam
In March Ramsay was convicted of stealing money from people after advertising her spare room as available to rent.
One of the victims was bombarded with explicit messages, despite his pleas for her to stop.
Ramsay had used the ‘Spare Room’ website and also Facebook to advertise the accommodation.
She would take advance payment but then refuse to let them move in, keeping the cash.
Sexual messages
In one case, a young man who had agreed to take the room began receiving sex messages from Ramsay.
He felt “uncomfortable” and “asked her to remain professional”.
She then asked him for more money but he refused and her messages continued.
“You’re grown-up for your age but I like that,” she wrote, adding his youth “turns me on”.
Ramsay made comments about his genitalia and said she could “teach him a thing or two” before going into graphic detail.
She continued in this vein and the man “felt this was extremely inappropriate”, according to the depute.
He asked for his money back but Ramsay made various excuses about why she could not return it over the following weeks.
Ramsay admitted stealing more than £1,200 between December 1 last year and February 28.
She also admitted that, on March 7, she sent a number of sexual text messages to a man.
Sheriff Charles Macnair put Ramsay on an eight-month curfew and ordered her to pay a total of £900 in compensation to the three people who lost money in the scam.
