A woman forged her doctor's signature to get a prescription.

Florence Hamill, 63, tried to receive pain medication and eye drops from a Boots in Glasgow on June 25 2021.

The city's Sheriff Court heard that Hamill had underwent surgery in March that year.

She had been prescribed 50 tablets of Oxy Pro pain pills for one month.

This was changed to be dispensed weekly as there were a number of "issues" with Hamill asking for a prescription.

Hamill, of the city’s Kelvinbridge, would state that the medication was lost or damaged.

On a later occasion Hamill claimed that she was going on holiday and required the next prescription in advance.

On June 20, Hamill contacted her GP to request eye drops.

Her doctor asked for confirmation of what types of eye drops were required and issued a prescription for Hamill to collect.

The fiscal depute said: "Hamill handwrote a prescription for 50 Oxy Pro tablets.

"At the bottom of the prescription she forged the signature of her doctor and gave it to her partner Ian Lawson to take to the pharmacy."

Mr Lawson attended the Boots in the city centre's Sauchiehall Street five days later.

The tablets were dispensed but the eye drops were out of stock.

The prosecutor stated: "The pharmacy suspected something was awry and contacted the doctor's office who were able to say the prescription was forged."

A report to the police was then made before Hamill was traced at her home.

She admitted forging the prescriptions saying that she became "addicted to the tablets."

Hamill pleaded guilty to uttering as genuine a prescription signed by the doctor which had been altered without authority.

Sheriff Patricia Pryce ordered Hamill to be of good behaviour for six months.

She said: "You come before me as a first offender at an advanced stage and you have reached it without being in bother.

"I understand there were circumstances that led to this."