Carlisle salesman defrauded plumbers’ merchant out of £34,000
Carlisle Crown Court
A trusted plumbers’ merchant salesman who defrauded his firm of around £34,000 while in the grip of a gambling problem has been jailed.
Anthony Joseph Crangle, 25, was given a car and phone after starting with the Kingstown branch of Crossling Ltd in January 2018.
But during a period of around two months to six weeks, Crangle created 42 bogus invoices using customers’ accounts to place orders for products mainly either Worcester or Baxi boilers which he took away from the branch.
Crangle was tackled after customers contacted the company to query invoices for goods they had neither ordered nor received.
Egremont knife and knuckleduster man late for court due to sat nav error
Carlisle Crown Court
A man has admitted illegal public possession of a knife and knuckleduster, but was late arriving at court due to a sat nav error.
When he did finally enter the Carlisle Crown Court dock, 58-year-old John Sloan a man of previous good character faced two charges.
Sloan admitted the unlawful possession in a public place of both a bladed article and offensive weapon: a knife and knuckleduster, respectively.
Through his solicitor, he submitted a formal basis for guilty pleas to offences which were both committed at Wyndham Place in Egremont on April 7.