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    Donald Scott    A PROMINENT Cumbrian estate agent responsible for a £450,000 fraud has been warned he may be jailed. At Carlisle Crown Court, a judge issued the warning to 62-year-old Donald George Scott, who was also a trusted land agent in Wigton, after he entered guilty pleas to 13 charges of fraud. By forging the signatures of his victims, Scott was able to sell so-called “entitlements” to their farmland – legal covenants which entitle the owner to European Union subsidy payments. He also took large sums of money from other customers who wrongly believed they were buying subsidy rights. Prosecutor Lucy Wright said: “It is the crown’s case that Mr Scott, while working as a land agent and estate agent, committed fraud against those who entrusted him to look after their entitlements. “He did this either by selling them without their knowledge, or by failing to invest money given to him to buy those entitlements. That was the...