A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a 29-year-old woman who failed to turn up at Selkirk Sheriff Court to answer alleged benefit fraud charges involving more than £9,000.

Lindsay Gemmell is said to have received £2338.90 in Employment Support Allowance when her partner shared the household in Marmion Road, Galashiels, between February 14, 2014, and October 2 that same year.

As a single parent the 29-year-old is also accused of claiming Income Support of £6865.10 between October 2014 and September 2016, to which she was not entitled.

Gemmell, now living in Dalkeith, faces a third charge of receiving £292.40 in benefits she was not entitled to over a month in 2016.