Pardon ?

[Canary42]

A guy was given a “second chance” by our ever-forgiving judiciary after stealing from previous employers in the 1990s, and he then landed an £86,000-a-year job with the Archdeaconry of London.

Whereupon he took the "second chance" and defrauded the Church out of over £5,200,000. He got 5 years (not bad, a million per year).

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/official-defrauded-church-england-5-152524141.html

[DTCwordfan]

can I have my ten percent to keep quiet - other than in front of God - though we know he ain't exactly watertight on the publicity front.

[Hopkirk]

He spent lots of it on food by the look of it.

[jno]

while I don't much like victim-blaming, I can only wonder what the church was doing all that time. Surely to God (so to speak) they could have held the occasional audit? Or did they too just think of it as "someone else's money"?

[youngmafbog]

I have to be with jno on this one.

[lady-janine]

Well he certainly didn't believe in 'yon Cassius having a lean and hungry look' did he.

How come he was given such a well-paid job after his previous sentence?

I hope he was completely stripped of all his assets.

[Hopkirk]

We are providing weapons for self defence, not offence.

Both Russia and the west would look at things differently if the Ukrainians attacked Moscow.

[Hopkirk]

Oops, wrong thread.

[douglas9401]

Ted Baker and Burberry make tarpaulins?

[wolf63]

You would think that, given his past, they would have made spot-checks on his accounts. I can't believe that any large institution is that naive and stupid.

He probably couldn't resist helping himself to money that was, basically, handed to him on a plate.

[Peter Pedant]

It looks as though they recovered assets of £2.5m which may not make people happier

[ZebuSanctuary]

// he certainly didn't believe in 'yon Cassius having a lean and hungry look' //

By the time he gets out of prison, he'll be half the man he was.

[jno]

there's a bit more about him in the current Private Eye. Apparently he'd done time for thefts from previous employers. He says he told the church about this and they'd forgiven him before hiring him. The church says he'd done nothing of the sort and anyway they didn't employ him, he was hired directly by the archdeacon of London.

[ZebuSanctuary]

//The church says he'd done nothing of the sort//

Endorsement by the clergy, never a better 'cover up'. Why else would they wear their cassocks. To hide their dirty habits?

Apologies in advance for talking your name in vain PP... I ought not to laugh at my own jokes... However a great big... Haw Haw Haw!

[sandyRoe]

Do potential employers not check references ?