Ex-chair sent down for stealing £50,000

By Mathew Little, Third Sector Online, 29 August 2007

A former trustee has been jailed for two years after being convicted of stealing nearly £50,000 from a Northern Ireland children's charity.

Stuart Collins, then chairman of the Children’s Magic Wand Trust, transferred the money from the charity’s bank account to his own between 2002 and 2003. He admitted five offences of theft and asked for 15 other offences to be considered before being sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court. The trust was...

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