THE former head of counter-fraud at Oxfam in Oxford faces trial next year accused of stealing more than £60,000 from the charity.

Edward McKenzie-Green, 34, of The Leys, Chipping Norton, is accused of taking £62,857.58 and a laptop in 2011.

McKenzie-Green, who denied fraud by abuse of position and theft by employee in July, appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday where a trial date was set for March 10.

His father Edward Green, 61, from Cumbernauld, Glasgow, who has denied laundering £35,571.75 of the proceeds of fraud, is due to appear at the London court for a preliminary hearing on December 6.