Jailed former bank adviser ordered to repay £12k to school

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A former Lloyds TSB financial adviser, jailed earlier this year for stealing money from his children's school and clients, has been ordered to pay back his gains.

Andrew Bartlett, of Malvern, Worcestershire, was sentenced to 18 months in July for taking £51,000 from two clients and £87,500 from accounts at Dyson Perrins CE School in Malvern, where his children had attended and where he was a governor and chairman of the finance committee. He appeared before Gloucester Crown Court on Monday and was told that his benefit from the crimes had been assessed at £12,000. He was also considered to have sufficient assets to pay the amount in full, the Malvern Gazette reports. Although the total defrauded was much higher, most of it has already been r...

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