A bank teller embezzled £150,000 in cash and used some of the money to pay for a deposit on a flat, a court heard.

Janie Cameron, a customer service adviser with the Royal Bank of Scotland, took cash from her till every day over a two-year period. The 29-year-old created fake transactions in the bank's system to cover up for the money she was taking.

She was eventually caught when another member of staff noticed a lot of large cash transactions were being processed under her system user name.

At Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday, Cameron, of Woodend Court, Glasgow, admitted embezzling £150,000 from the bank's Stonelaw Road branch in Rutherglen between April 2004 and July 2006.

Prosecutor Michelle Tollan told the court that bank employee Karen McNutt visited the bank in June 2006 to carry out a routine inspection of transactions.

She noticed a number of large cash transactions were being processed by Cameron and this led to a full investigation.

Miss Tollan said: "Investigations revealed that the accused had embezzled money from the bank by removing cash from her teller position.

"She then concealed her activities by entering fictitious manual transactions on the bank's computer system."

The court heard that Cameron was suspended from duty and called to a meeting at the bank's headquarters.

Miss Tollan added: "She told bosses that she had used the cash to fund a deposit on a flat and to pay off around £70,000 of debt."

Police were notified and Cameron was charged with embezzling the cash. During her police interview she told officers that she started shopping using her credit cards and things quickly began "snowballing".

She claimed that she started taking money from the bank to pay her monthly payments. Miss Tollan added that none of the money had been repaid.

Defence lawyer Ken Sinclair told the court that his client had ran up massive credit card bills after splitting up from her fiance.

Mr Sinclair said: "She went out and bought things she shouldn't have on credit cards because this went some way to alleviate her pain from the break-up.

"She then used the money from the bank to pay these bills. She appreciates that this was totally unacceptable and a breach of the trust that her employers had given her."

Sheriff Sam Cathcart deferred sentence until next month for background reports and Cameron was released on bail.