Bank adviser who took school's money jailed

Andrew Bartlett, of Malvern, Worcestershire, took £138,500 in total to prop up a sideline in property development, Gloucester Crown Court heard. The 48-year-old last month pleaded guilty to two charges of fraud and three of using criminal property. Bartlett was sentenced to 18 months in prison and told he had committed a "significant breach of trust", the BBC reports. Bartlett, who worked at a Lloyd's TSB branch in Gloucester branch, committed the offences over a five-year period. He was arrested in 2010 after an internal bank investigation and told the police it was the only ca...