Cambridge academic jailed for stealing

A Cambridge don made up bogus archaeological projects in a bid to steal more than £220,000 (US$333,500) of lottery grants, writes Nicola Harley for The Telegraph.

David Barrowclough (48) of Ely, a governing body fellow in the department of archaeology of Wolfson College, doctored paperwork and invoices to claim £223,000 in grants from the lottery heritage fund for imaginary archaeological schemes. He was only caught after a letter was delivered to the wrong address. He made his first application for a lottery grant in 2005 and received regular grant money from 2006 until 2013 and used false references to support his projects to get more funding.

He has been jailed at Huntingdon Law Courts, Cambridgeshire, for six years on eight counts after being convicted of fraud and deception. The court heard how Barrowclough had been struck off as a solicitor in November 1997 when he was sentenced to four years in prison after admitting to 12 counts of theft.
Full report on The Telegraph site