A WOMAN has been fined for fiddling with her electricity meter.
Last Wednesday at the county's Justice of the Peace Court, Claire Lyon pleaded guilty to intentionally preventing her meter to be registered to ascertain the quantity of electricity used from a supplier over two years between December 7, 2014-16.
The 31-year-old, of Hillview Terrace in Tillicoultry, also admitted allowing the same meter to be fitted with a bridge wire, preventing the supplier from measuring the correct amount of electricity used at the premises over the same period.
Defence agent Ms Maitland claimed that her client's former partner, who lived in the first-floor flat between 2014-2015, continually complained about being cold.
According to Lyon, one day she arrived home to find the meter had been bypassed with a blue wire on instruction from her ex.
Ms Maitland stated that the accused regretted not informing the electricity provider when it happened, and she has since started to repay the company for its loss.
Justice Mandy Shand fined the accused £250 and emphasised that bypassing electricity meters makes it unsafe for the properties around.
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