A GREENOCK man has been charged with defrauding his employer by using a company card to obtain vehicle fuel for himself.

Scott Coyle is also accused of duping a local woman out of £1,000 over work he had agreed to carry out for her.

Coyle, 30, is said to have illegally obtained goods using a company card belonging to Glasgow-based construction firm MP Group Ltd.

Prosecutors say he got fuel at the Tesco petrol station in Port Glasgow, Morrisons in Greenock and the Branchton BP garage between January 24 and 30, knowing that the payment card had only to be used in the course of his employment.

He is also charged with obtaining goods by fraud from Jewson's in Greenock and Largs, as well as Howden's in Greenock and Paisley.

He is further charged with pretending to a woman that he would complete a decking job at her caravan and inducing her to give him £1,000 in cash at a property in Dempster Street on April 5.

The Crown case against Coyle, of Finnart Street, has been continued at the sheriff court.