Accountant jailed after blowing £340,000 on hooker
Dunscar accountant jailed for two years
Michael
Lee, 59, an accountant from Shorefield Mount, Dunscar has been jailed for
two years after using money he was supposed to bank to fund an infatuation with
a prostitute.
During a five-year ‘relationship’ Lee stole £120,000 from Alec’s Three Piece
Suites Warehouse in Great Lever and also used £161,000 of his savings on the
woman, as well as £60,000 he borrowed on credit cards, the
Bolton
Crown Court heard.
He covered his crimes by forging the accounts but eventually handed himself
in to police in January this year after a colleague’s wage cheque from the
company had bounced.
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