Grant Peters Admits Fraud After Taking £20,000 in Midlothian

Grant Peters admitted fraud at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after taking more than £20,000 from victims and stealing building materials in midlothian. The 39-year-old from Dalkeith pleaded guilty to four charges tied to work he offered but only partly completed between February 2020 and July 2021.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court

The court heard that one victim in Dalkeith paid him £12,000 for work left incomplete between September 2020 and March 2021. Another customer in Newtongrange was charged £7,000 for a job that was never fully carried out, while a third customer from Dalkeith paid £2,650 for building materials and work.

Peters also admitted obtaining money by fraud. He appeared in court after failing to repay customers despite repeated requests, and the offences stretched across more than a year.

Dalkeith Building Materials

Between February and October 2020, Peters stole a quantity of building materials from an address in Dalkeith. That theft sat alongside the unpaid and incomplete work, tying the case to both cash losses and missing materials for people who had handed him money for building jobs.

The pattern began in February 2020 and continued until July 2021, with the Dalkeith and Newtongrange work forming the main part of the case. Peters has now admitted four charges, leaving the court process focused on the outcome of that plea rather than any disputed facts about the work itself.

Four Charges Plea

For anyone who paid Peters, the court hearing matters because it established that the losses were not isolated. The record before the court links the money taken, the unfinished jobs and the stolen materials to one builder over a defined period, with the plea fixing responsibility on him in open court.