A property manager stole a “staggering sum” totalling more than £100,000 from police stores, including cash taken for safekeeping from people who had died, a judge has said.
Andrew Roberts, 55, took more than 200 items of evidence and property from Huddersfield police station, including £5,645 received by officers for safekeeping after they were called to the home of a seriously ill elderly woman who later died.
He also stole £742 similarly taken to be looked after when a man died suddenly on a footpath in the West Yorkshire town, a judge was told.
Roberts was jailed for four years when he appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday. The court heard that he was only caught after he gave his daughter six 50-euro notes, taken from the store he
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