A "family man" swindled the company he worker for out of £6.7m before he gambled it away on the stock market.
Despite already earning £80,000 per year, financial controller James Hall transferred himself millions from the cash reserves of the company he worked for to "secure the financial security of his wife and children".
Bolton Crown Court heard today that 49-year-old then lost most of the money gambling on the FTSE 100 index.
