A PORT Glasgow woman who admitted to trying to defraud the Queen as part of a serious organised crime operation will be sentenced before Christmas.

Marta Kosciuk had originally been charged with knowingly concealing more than a tonne of tobacco with intent to withhold nearly £400,000 of payable duty.

However, the 37-year-old - who pleaded guilty to an amended indictment charge earlier this year - has now been convicted of 'carrying, removing, depositing, harbouring, keeping or in any manner dealing with' 504kg of hand rolling tobacco, reduced from 1.029 tonnes.

Prosecutors state that Kosciuk acted with other unidentified individuals in a bid to 'defraud Her Majesty' of the duty payable on the goods - a sum of £191,520, reduced from £391,020.

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Kosciuk, who lives at Gourock Ropeworks in Bay Street, carried out the criminal act at another flat within her building, at a Contain It self-storage site in Glasgow's Jessie Street and elsewhere in the UK, according to court papers.

The offence, committed between May 30 and June 15, 2019, is said to have been aggravated by a connection with serious organised crime.

Kosciuk was set for a jury trial at Greenock Sheriff Court earlier this year before her guilty plea.

Sentence had been deferred since the end of October and the latest calling of the case heard that a background report was not yet available.

Sheriff Anthony McGeehan has scheduled a new sentencing date of December 20 and Kosciuk's bail was continued until then.