A convicted conman who tried to sue firms for millions withheld almost £5000 in wages from an employee before being found dead.
Christopher Ireland – previously jailed for fraud and branded a “Walter Mitty” over a series of failed businesses – was found dead in his Dundee flat in January. Now an employment tribunal has ruled he “unlawfully” withheld £4890 from an employee in the months before his death.
A judgment revealed an admin assistant found out about her boss’s death when the Record reported it. The tribunal ordered Ireland and his firm Jute, Jam and Journalism Group to pay the assistant three months of missing wages.
