A chief fire officer from Scotland has been cleared of fraud after making a winning £500 bid on one of his own brigade's Land Rovers in an auction he was running.
Stewart Edgar won the Defender - being sold off after reaching the end of its service life - after using a third-party company to put the bid in on his behalf.
After a week-long trial, a Birmingham Crown Court jury unanimously found Edgar not guilty on Friday after hearing how he secured the 2003-plate vehicle, telling a colleague he had always wanted a red Land Rover for his daughter's wedding.
The 53-year-old former head of Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service, resigned from his £120,000-a-year post in 2018 just weeks after the sale came to light in an internal audit,
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