{"id":11667,"date":"2019-12-14T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T12:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=11667"},"modified":"2019-12-14T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T12:44:56","slug":"verwood-man-jailed-for-100000-fraud-and-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/verwood-man-jailed-for-100000-fraud-and-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Verwood man jailed for \u00a3100,000 fraud and theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Verwood who stole \u00a3118,000 over four years from JP Morgan has been jailed for 28 months.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Emerson, of Hayward Way Verwood, admitted fraud by abuse of position and theft while working at the bank&#8217;s offices in Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth Crown Court heard he stole cheques worth over \u00a3118,000 to fund gambling debts. He also committed fraud in a bid to hide a mistake made in a financial transfer whilst at work.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote company cheques to pay his own credit cards, and spent 10 years fraudulently transferring money between different accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The offences only came to light after Emerson had retired.<\/p>\n<p>Passing sentence, Judge Stephen Climie said Emerson had been in a position of absolute trust at the bank where he was seen as an esteemed and valued colleague. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear despite your positive attributes you have lived for many years with a personal demon, namely a gambling addiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He told him, the stolen funds &#8220;unquestionably facilitated, if not fuelled, your addiction&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Verwood who stole \u00a3118,000 over four years from JP Morgan has been jailed for 28 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-11667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-kevin-emerson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}