AN EMPLOYEE at a Dunfermline vets firm stole more than £30,000 from the business.

Derek Giblin, 59, committed the offence over a period of more than five years.

Giblin, of Calderwood Road, Glasgow, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He admitted that on various occasions between August 26, 2009, and September 9, 2014, at Vets Now, Castle Riggs, Dunfermline, while an employee there, he embezzled the sum of £31,493.07.

Sheriff Krista Johnston called for reports and Giblin will be sentenced on July 24.