A Bradford-based financial adviser has been jailed after a court found him guilty of stealing almost £400,000 from four vulnerable clients over a 16-year period.
Glenn Wrighton, 63, was found guilty on 1 August of "a grotesque breach of trust". The victims were four women, three of whom were elderly and one who had suffered a tragic bereavement, reported the Bradford Telegraph and Argus. The court had heard Wrighton stole £384,595 over a 16-year period while trading as Yorkshire Financial Clinic Ltd. Judge David Hatton QC told Wrighton: "People had invested significant sums with you in order to cater for their financial futures and those of their loved ones; futures you wholly destroyed." The judge said the consequences for the victims a...
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