A mortgage adviser is to spend nine months in prison for removing an entire kitchen from a Sleaford couple's home days before it was due to be repossessed.
According to the Sleaford Standard, the former serviceman and mortgage adviser was arrested as he returned from a holiday in Abu Dhabi after the couple reported the kitchen missing. Darren Newton (pictured) has subsequently been banned from operating by the Financial Conduct Authority and forced to sell his interest in his business, Mortgageforce, of Carre Street, Sleaford. The adviser was eventually found guilty at Lincoln Magistrates Court for paying for appliances and cupboards to be stripped from the home - potentially taking around £15,000 off its value. He was sentenced at Linco...
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