Commission welcomes sentencing of children’s cancer charity founder for fraud and theft
The Charity Commission today welcomed the 20-month custodial sentence handed down to Colin Nesbitt for fraud and theft from a children’s cancer charity.
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30 April 2021
The regulator first identified and reported concerns about the charity’s finances in 2015, which led to his arrest.
Mr Nesbitt, the founder and director of a former children’s cancer charity, Little Heroes Cancer Trust, was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment after he was found guilty in March 2021. He stole £87,000 from the charity and transferred £181,000 into a bank account in his name between July 2014 and May 2015.