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JAILHOUSE SHOCK
I was a millionaire banker who had it all – but I ended up in a US prison and surrounded by paedophiles
11:26 ET, May 24 2021
GILES Darby was just a few weeks into his foreign prison sentence when he watched a man being beaten half to death.
Convicted of fraud and extradited to the US, Giles had lost his comfortable life as a multimillionaire banker in Britain to be banged up in Allenwood Federal Correctional Institution, Pennsylvania, in the wake of one of the biggest scandals in business history.
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The NatWest Three in 2004: David Bermingham, Giles Darby, and Gary Mulgrew, who were charged with defrauding their employerCredit: Rex
Nothing about Giles Darby s life as a £1 million-a-year City banker the Hertfordshire home with swimming pool in three manicured acres, the first-class travel; the well-cut suit and chauffeur-driven car could have prepared him for life in a harsh U.S. penitentiary. The richer your life outside, the harder it is to be inside, observes Giles, one of the so-called NatWest Three, who was extradited to America and jailed there because of his entanglement in a £7 million fraud against the bank he worked for. A tramp may go to prison and be grateful for a bed and a meal. But if you re used to expense-account dinners and the bill is just irrelevant you don t even look at the cost of the wine to be picking the meat from the undercarriage of a chicken carcass, eating sewer trout or chewing a burger made entirely of gristle is a big comedown.
by David Prior
Analytics consultancy STRAT7 has expanded its sales and marketing team after a period of strong growth across the group.
The company, which is headquartered in London but has offices in Leeds, Amsterdam, New York, Singapore, Stockholm and Sydney, has grown headcount by 50% over the last year to 200.
Richard Morland, who previously held senior marketing roles at 1E and GfK, has joined as Group Marketing Director, responsible for overall marketing strategy and increasing brand awareness for STRAT7 and its operating companies including STRAT7 ResearchBods, STRAT7 Bonamy Finch and recently acquired Crowd DNA.
Also joining the marketing team is Oliver Gwynne, who moves from Proservartner to become Content & Digital Marketing Manager.
PUB landlords in Gwent have reacted with anger to the revelation that a group of politicians drank alcohol together in the Senedd - just four days after pubs in Wales were banned from selling booze. An investigation by the Senedd Commission found there had been a possible breach of coronavirus regulations by a group of politicians in the Senedd on December 8 and 9, and the matter is now being reviewed by Cardiff Council to decide whether those involved will be fined. The group included then-leader of the Welsh Conservatives Paul Davies – who resigned on Saturday over the allegations – as well as Blaenau Gwent MS Alun Davies, who has been suspended from the Labour group in the Senedd.