Three years for fundraiser

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector Online, 10 April 2008

A businessman has been jailed for three years after pocketing nearly £275,000 raised in the name of charity.

Leigh Windsor, of Quethiock, Cornwall, used his company, Leigh Windsor Promotions, to organise a series of lotteries to raise money for several air ambulances. But he channelled the money raised into his own bank account, which he had opened under the name Flight for Life. He admitted stealing £210,000 from...

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