A JUDGE has appointed a receiver to sell the home of a couple who plundered tens of thousands from various jobs they had.

Fraudsters David and Sarah Sebugulu tried to claim their Abbey Meads property was being held in trust for their grown up children, so no longer owned by them.

But prosecutors trying to reclaim the corrupt couple's ill-gotten gains said they did not accept their account and sought to have the Newstead Close property seized.

Now Judge Tim Mousley QC, sitting at Swindon Crown Court, has rule a receiver be appointed to sell the detached house, the 50-year-olds' main asset, from underneath them.

In 2006 Ugandan David was jailed for two-and-a-half-years and Sarah one year after he got a temporary job as a regional credit controller with oil company Castrol UK.

Within weeks of starting he transferred £65,601 to his wife’s building society and an account in another man’s name which they had access to.

Sarah then spent more than £62,000 as if it were her own, telling police she thought the money had come from an error in the banking system.

When David was questioned, having been arrested at Heathrow trying to fly to Dubai on a false French passport, he denied any wrongdoing trying to blame colleagues.

Detectives went through their finances and uncovered that Sarah had also been on the fiddle at her Thames Water job.

She worked in customer care giving her access to their database of 13 million customers using their bank details to take £8,253.45p in 36 transactions.

Following her release from prison Sarah got a job through an agency and stole another £14,801.38p, getting a 16 month jail term in 2009.

Then in 2012 a judge branded her ‘dishonest through and through’ when she was caught stealing from work for a third time, earning her another one year sentence.

She said she had stolen that cash in a bid to settle a Proceeds of Crime Act order which tried to claw back £125,000.

David was found to have benefited from crime by £65,885.65p and ordered to pay it all out of realisable assets in excess of £400,000: most of it in the house.

His wife was ruled to have benefited by £75,563.12p but she only has realisable assets of £50,636.25p which was all she was told to pay.

The couple were given six months to pay the money and had to serve the two year jail terms when they did not cough up the money.

Despite doing the jail terms the debt was not settled and the authorities continued to pursue them for the cash, almost all of which will go to main victim Castrol.

They had also tried to challenge the legality of the order at the Court of Appeal in London, but the ruling was upheld.

And they then tried to claim that the house was in put into a trust, thought to have been drawn up in Uganda, for their children so not their property.

But when they failed to provide adequate evidence to back up their claims the fraudsters face having the house sold to meet the court order.