Bank adviser avoids jail despite £200k client theft

The Daily Mail reports the 'senior financial adviser' took £226,508 from six pensioner clients over five years to bet on football matches. The paper said Marc Burnett, 30, from East Yorkshire pocketed the cash in 45 false transactions between 2008 and last year. Hull Crown Court heard he ensured his victims did not find out about the thefts by diverting their bank statements. The report said his Lloyds Bank bosses were also fowled about his behaviour and 'knew nothing of the withdrawals'. Burnett pleaded guilty to six charges of fraud after his theft was uncovered by his boss while he...