A finance boss who stole more than £2million over 30 years from the university he worked at and blew the money on 'fine dining and holidays' has been jailed. 'Dishonest' David Hall used his position as head of accounts at the University of Brighton, East Sussex, to embezzle money over a period of three decades and covered his tracks through fraudulent entries.
Jailing the 64-year-old, a judge branded the scale of his fraudulent activity as 'breath-taking'. His Honour Judge Roger Chapple sentenced the greedy crook to six years in jail at Hove Crown Court after a joint investigation by police and financial investigators uncovered the complex string of financial cover-ups.
Hall had previously admitted to charges of fraud by abuse of position, theft by an employee and false accounting. HHJ Chapple told him: "The scale and breadth of your dishonesty over 30 years is breath-taking.
