A COLLEGE lecturer has appeared in court accused of trying to obtain cash using her husband's credit card.
Vivian McVay, a travel and tourism lecturer at City of Sunderland Colleges, is accused of using her husband, Geoffrey's, credit card to steal £3,000.
She is also alleged to have tried to obtain £5,000 by cashing in his Premium Bonds, and with trying to secure a £20,000 loan from the HSBC bank by saying she and her husband had signed a loan application.
Mrs McVay, 43, of Weymouth Drive, Biddick Woods, Wearside, pleaded not guilty to nine charges of dishonesty at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday.
She will be tried on July 7.
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