A doctor who admitted writing prescriptions for dead patients and collecting the medication for himself has been spared jail.
John Henderson, 39, hatched a scheme writing out fake forms over a seven month period and received the drugs from those prescriptions in chemists in Blantyre, Hamilton, East Kilbride, Uddingston, Kilsyth, Glasgow and Cambuslang.
He began writing bogus prescriptions for powerful painkillers that he later injected into his body. The scheme allowed him to obtain prescription medication by fraud between July 2021 and February 2022
Henderson, of Gloucester, pled guilty to a single charge of fraud at Hamilton Sheriff Court and narrowly avoided jail. Sheriff Linda Nicolson ordered him to pay £883.02 in compensation to the NHS and perform 100 hours of unpaid work
