Charity Halloween ball director admits embezzling almost £6k from plush St Andrews University occasion

The director of a university’s charity Halloween ball has been caught embezzling nearly £6,000 of funds.

Amy Fisken appeared in the dock at Dundee Sheriff Court and admitted stealing from the House of Horrors charity event at St Andrews University.

Fisken, 28, was a student and co-director of the university’s famous fancy dress ball when she embezzled money from it over a two year period.

She admitted embezzling £5,737.77 of charitable funds while acting as a co-director of the House of Horrors event between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2021.

Fisken, formerly of Carlton Street, Edinburgh, had sentence deferred for the preparation of background reports and a restriction of liberty order assessment.

Amy Fisken (pictured) appeared in the dock at Dundee Sheriff Court and admitted stealing from the House of Horrors charity event at St Andrews University

Fisken, 28, was a student and co-director of the university’s famous fancy dress ball. Pictured: Advertising an event in 2016

She embezzled money from the ball over a two year period. Pictured: An advert for an event in 2018

She admitted embezzling £5,737.77 of charitable funds while acting as a co-director of the House of Horrors event between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2021. Pictured: Outside court

Fisken, formerly of Carlton Street, Edinburgh , had sentence deferred for the preparation of background reports and a restriction of liberty order assessment

Now living in London, she was ordained to appear for sentence next month.

Solicitor John Boyle, defending, entered Fisken’s guilty plea.

He said: ‘There’s a background here which I think is best explored in the report.’

Further details of the offence will be narrated to the court at the sentencing diet.

The case was previously delayed for over a year when Fisken failed to turn up and a warrant was issued for her arrest at that stage.