A Scots conman who lied about being a nurse and pocketed over £130,000 in a funeral service scam has been struck off the register. Barry Fisher, who has also gone by Barry Stevenson-Hamilton, was convicted of fraud after defrauding 49 people across Fife between 2016 and 2019.
The 41-year-old pocketed an eye-watering £130,207 from elderly and vulnerable clients of his company, Stevenson Funeral Directors. The former support worker's scheme involved falsely leading customers into believing that they would be provided with a pre-paid funeral plan.
Instead Fisher, of Edinburgh, shredded all of the client's details and pocketed the money intended for their funeral services. The fraudster was subsequently tried at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in July last year, where he was jailed for 33 months.
