A married couple have been sentenced after going on family holidays abroad with money stolen from celebrity chef Stephen Terry.
Nicola Nightingale, 48, and Simon Nightingale, 50, took £150,000 from the Great British Menu chef while working at his popular restaurant The Hardwick, in Abergavenny, Wales, a court heard. Mr Terry, who was Gordon Ramsey’s best man, opened the award-winning gastropub in 2005 and it has since become one of the most iconic restaurants in the country.
The couple were handed two-year suspended sentences at Cardiff Crown Court today (May 22). The court heard how Mrs Nightingale, who was employed as Mr Terry's office administrator between February 2018 and March 2020, had issues with alcoholism and mental health and used the money to fund her spending addiction.
