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| A photo of Liam Knights from a social networking site |
While most people think running a bingo site or club must be a dream job, there are inherent risks involved as well. One prime example of this is Gala Leisure which, in the latest bingo news, was robbed by employee, Liam Knights, on the 13th of March.
Knights, who is only 19 years old, was working as the company’s treasurer when he decided to steal £24,580 and go on a holiday for several weeks to Amsterdam with a friend, Leon Jones. There, they blew all of this bingo money on hotels, cannabis and who knows what else before deciding to turn themselves in.
They initially tried to hand themselves over to the Dutch police, but were told that it would be a waste of time. They were later arrested at the airport after arriving back in the UK and the case went to trial on the 18th May where the pair pleaded guilty. On the 21st of June, the judge finally handed down their sentences.
Knights now has to spend 15 months’ within a young offender institution, whereas Jones was sentenced to nine month’s detention, 18 months suspension and 100 hours of unpaid work. As the pair decided to turn themselves in, the judge was softer in the penalties. Otherwise, there would have been a real chance that the pair could have been locked up instead.
When looking at the amount, £24,000 seems like a lot of money. It is certainly more than most people in the UK earn every year. Knights and Jones managed to spend it all in a few weeks, however, without seeming to care how their actions had affected the folks at Gala Leisure. In fact, it was only when they ran out did they then turn themselves in. Their new bingo money had run dry and it was time to go home and face the consequences.
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4 comments:
These jokers must be thinking it's a once and a lifetime opportunity and that they should take it, too bad though they will also have a criminal record as a souvenir from that experience.
This is some way for this bloke to start his working life; with a record for stealing. His live in the moment attitude might just have costed him of ever getting a decent recommendation for a job in the future.
How would you spend £24000 in a few weeks? I'd run out of things to buy! These two certainly had the brains to come up with ways to spend it though. It's a pity they didn't have the brains to see how shortsighted their outlook was.
This is such a sad event for gala bingo. It's one thing to be robbed but it worst if you are robbed by your own employees.
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