Birmingham professor is cleaned out by his cleaner
A CLEANER with a chronic gambling addiction emptied a Birmingham professor’s bank account after stealing a bank card from his home.
Adrian Flanagan, 36, who siphoned off more than £14,000, was sentenced to 50 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for a period of two years.
The former Land Rover worker, of School Road, Yardley Wood, was also ordered to carry out 100 hours’ unpaid work and pay £14,041 compensation after admitting theft between March and June this year.
Judge Rupert Mayo said: “It was a wicked breach of trust in that you stole a bank card and pin details from someone who trusted you to be in their home unsupervised.”
But the judge said he accepted Flanagan had tried to get help to beat his “ghastly” addiction and that he had saved up enough to pay a third of the money back.
