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Accountant fleeced £1.5 million from clients to satisfy betting habit
By Ben Moss
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An accountant reportedly stole £1.5 million from clients in order to satisfy his insatiable thirst for gambling according to the Daily Mirror.
David Atkinson of Heywood Lancashire promised his customers high-interest investments but instead stole the money in order to subsidise a mounting gambling addiction.
The accountant admitted 15 counts of theft at Bolton Crown Court, and then asked for a further 58 to be taken into consideration.
One of Atkinson’s victims told the Mirror: “We trusted him with everything.”
The defendant will be sentenced in February and remanded in custody until then, but Judge William Morris suggested a jail term was inevitable.
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