Andreana McDonald pocketed nearly £500 from four colleagues at the butchers where she worked.

Dumbarton Sheriff Court last week heard the 39-year-old thought she would be able to get the gig tickets through a friend but kept the money she collected from her workmates when the tickets failed to materialise.

Fiscal depute Claire Martin said: “The background is that the accused, around November 2013, had found out the possibility of getting hold of tickets for concerts through a Facebook friend.

“She thereafter went into her place of work and told them she could get tickets through this friend.

“She then gathered the money in good faith and passed that money on to her Facebook friend.” The fiscal depute explained that Andreana was “let down” by this person and was unable to get tickets.

She added: “The accused got the money back but failed to pass it on.” McDonald stole £494.50 from four colleagues at Top of the Hill Butchers, Kilbowie Road, Clydebank.

The mother of two, who has a son aged 16 and another aged three, pleaded guilty to stealing the money on November 15 last year.

Sentence was previously deferred for her to repay the cash but her lawyer, Philip Lafferty, told the court she had not done so.

He said McDonald, of Montrose Street, had put aside £230 for repayment but had been forced to use it to buy white goods for a new home after being made homeless when the privately rented home she lived in was repossessed.

She was denied a hardship grant and Mr Lafferty said she had “nowhere to turn” but to the money she had saved.

He said: “It wasn’t for want of trying or desire to put the money by that she finds herself unable to make payment at this juncture.

“She knows she owes this money and it is her desire to repay the money as and when she can.” He said McDonald, who is currently unemployed, is keen to return to work but has to factor in her youngest son’s “significant” health problems.

Sheriff John Rafferty sentenced her to a compensation order for a total of £494.50 under which she has to pay back the money at £10 per fortnight.

He told her: “In effect it will be separate compensation orders in respect of the various persons that you have stolen this money from.” * In October last year we told how McDonald staged a fundraiser for Yorkhill Children’s Hospital.

The mum had her hair chopped off to raise money for the hospital to thank staff for saving her young son’s life.