A married couple enjoyed family holidays abroad with money stolen from the restaurant of celebrity chef Stephen Terry. Nicola Nightingale and husband Simon fleeced the Great British Menu chef of £150,000 while working at his well-known restaurant The Hardwick, in Abergavenny, Wales.
Mr Terry, who trained under Marco Pierre White and was best man at Gordon Ramsay's wedding, opened the award-winning gastropub in 2005 and it has since become known as one of the best restaurants in the country. The couple were given two-year suspended sentences at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.
During the hearing it was heard that Mrs Nightingale, 48, who Mr Terry employed as his office administrator between February 2018 and March 2020, had alcoholism and mental health problems and used the money to fund her spending addiction.
