Overview
- A five-week trial at Hereford Crown Court ended on February 12 with guilty verdicts on 15 counts, and sentencing is set for March 25 at Worcester Crown Court.
- Jurors acquitted him on one additional count, and they could not reach a verdict on another.
- He repeatedly kept expense claims below internal scrutiny thresholds while controlling petty cash, siphoning roughly £13,500 from members’ funds.
- Investigators said he falsified timesheets to receive pay while away, with messages showing days off to watch rugby in Italy and Ireland.
- He used National Police Memorial Day trips to take family holidays in four- and five-star hotels in York, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London, drawing condemnation from the CPS and West Mercia Police.