showbiz gossip straight to your inbox with the Daily Star's FREE newsletterA barristers’ clerk stole more than £130,000 from the chambers of The Chase star Shaun Wallace – and spent £10,000 on dog training.Mathew Kesbey, 48, “betrayed” colleagues and friends at a time when lawyers were struggling during the pandemic because jury trials were paused.The London-based Great James Street Chambers counts professional quizzer Dr Shaun Wallace as one of the barristers on its books.Alun Jones QC, head of the chambers, told Kesbey’s sentencing hearing he was a “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde character”.He was unaware the senior clerk was siphoning off funds to fritter them away on “everyday and mundane expenses” including dog training, meals out, groceries.
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