A FORMER health authority employee who changed his plea and admitted a computer scam now agrees that the value of the fraud is £18,000.

Neil Stephen Roberts, who initially denied fraud which involved selling National Health Service laptops on eBay, was originally charged with a £40,000 offence.

In his basis of plea, submitted at an earlier hearing, he claimed it was more like £4,000.

The prosecution and defence have now agreed that the fraud was valued at £18,000.

Roberts, 38, of Oak Meadows, Tanyfron, near Brymbo, who at the time worked at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, was rebailed by Judge Huw Rees, sitting at Mold Crown Court so a pre-sentence report can be prepared by the probation service.

He admitted that between June 2013 and March 2017, while occupying a position of trust as a desktop support technician in which he was expected to safeguard the financial interests of the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Trust, he dishonestly abused his position by selling laptop computers for his own personal gain.

Roberts no longer works at the hospital.