Edward Humphrey, of Hardwicke, stole more than £62,000 from Stroud company In-Light Ltd An accountant who stole more than £62,000 from an alternative medicine company in Stroud to finance his gambling addiction has been jailed for two years and eight months. Edward Humphrey, 42, of Overbrook Road, Hardwicke, abused his position as bookkeeper for In-Light Ltd, which provides homeopathic medicine courses in Rodborough, by making unauthorised bank transfers to his own Stroud company. After just six months at In-Light, Humphrey began making a total of 70 different transfers over a period of 18 months to his firm Stroud Accounting Solutions Ltd., Gloucester Crown Court heard on Friday.
A bookkeeper defrauded an alternative medicine a company in Stroud out of nearly £70k, a court heard Edward Humphrey, 42, of Overbrook Road, Hardwicke, pleaded guilty to dishonestly abusing his position at In-Light Ltd, which provides alternative medicine courses, by making unauthorised bank transfers to Stroud Accounting Solutions Ltd. The fraud amounted of £67,000, a court heard on Thursday. In-Light Limited is the holding company for the School of Homeopathy, The School of Health and Yondercott Press and is listed at an address in Rodborough Hill, Stroud. It offers alternative medicine courses, seminars, books and webinars focusing on nutrition, homeopathy, herbal medicine, yoga, Indian and Chinese Medicine.