{"id":294854,"date":"2025-12-02T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294854\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:36:08","slug":"skipton-gambling-addict-fuelled-habit-with-company-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/294854\/","title":{"rendered":"Skipton gambling addict fuelled habit with company funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The volume of money flowing through Lowe&#8217;s personal bank accounts raised red flags with his bank, particularly large sums received via PayPal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When questioned, Lowe claimed the money was from the sale of his business, despite that transaction having occurred in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He eventually pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position of trust, committed between March 2023 and February 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following sentencing, Det Con Neil Brodhurst, said: &#8220;We are pleased with the custodial sentence handed down to Lowe, who shamelessly abused his position of trust to fund a gambling habit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Even though the stolen funds were converted into cryptocurrency, we were able to trace the transactions and prove how he benefited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fraud is never a victimless crime, and this case highlights the wider ripple effect of Lowe&#8217;s actions &#8211; undermining morale, trust, and financial stability across the workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The volume of money flowing through Lowe&#8217;s personal bank accounts raised red flags with his bank, particularly large&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-294854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}