A Royal Navy senior rating fraudulently claimed £13,150 in boarding school allowance for her son, a court martial heard.

Master At Arms Eileen Harvey was living with her husband and son in Alton, Hampshire, in 2010 when she was given a new position at HMS Neptune in Faslane Naval Base, near Helensburgh.

The senior rating, responsible for service discipline, falsely claimed in personnel forms her family would be moving to Helensburgh, a court martial at Portsmouth Naval Base heard.

However, her husband remained at their Hampshire home and the son at his current boarding school in Southsea.

Harvey said she had made an administration error. She denies three charges and the trial continues.