A 51-year-old Gwaun cae Gurwen man has been jailed for 14 months after he admitted stealing almost £40,000 from a valley social club.
Andrew MacMillan, of New Road, syphoned of the cash from Tairgwaith Workingmen’s Club during his three-year stint as treasurer.
Appearing at Swansea Crown Court, former RAF man MacMillan admitted 15 offences of theft and one offence of false accounting.
The court was told that MacMillan stole more than £39,000 between 2003 and 2006 by tricking a co-signatory of club funds into signing blank cheques.
MacMillan would then use the signed cheques to get cash or simply pay them into his own account.
The court was told how MacMillan went on to forge the co-signatory’s signature.
When club officials became suspicious, MacMillan forged audit documents, claiming they had come from the club’s accountants.
Mark Spackman, defending, said: "He got into temptation and followed the wrong path."
Judge Merfyn Hughes QC jailed MacMillan but ordered the Crown Prosecution Service to explain why it had taken three years to bring the case to court.
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