Adviser jailed for stealing £200k from clients

Geoffrey Fincher, a director at SK8 Financial Services and North Cheshire Associates until last year, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court on 10 November after earlier admitting to 22 charges involving seven victims. The charges comprised eight counts of fraud, seven counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, two counts of theft and five counts of making or supplying an article for use in fraud. Fincher, 72, asked for nine counts of similar offences to remain on file. According to Cheshire Police, the offences for which Fincher was jailed related to his work for SK8, which ...