THE trial date for an alleged fraudster, accused of a large-scale iPad sale scam, has been moved back until later this year.

But as a result, the accused woman, Kirsty Cox, has been released on conditional bail prior to the hearing, now transferred from Durham to Teesside Crown Court, and set to run for a fortnight, starting on November 4.

Thirty-six-year-old Ms Cox, of Hamsterley Road, Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, has voluntarily been detained in custody since her arrest in December.

It is alleged that she failed to supply approximately 4,000 tablet computers to expectant customers who had paid, believing they were to receive a bargain, on the run up to last Christmas.

She is charged with a single count of fraud, covering all the alleged activity, and will be asked to give a plea at a hearing, also at Teesside Crown Court, on Monday, July 8.

The trial was originally set to start at Durham Crown Court on June 3, but the date has been moved back due to the “complicated nature of the case”.

Judge Christopher Prince agreed to transfer the case at a hearing at Durham today (Wednesday May 22), when he also agreed to grant bail, to an agreed alternative address, which he ordered could not be published.