He's Charles Overend, and together with his brother Jonathan and solicitors' clerk Carrol Thompson, he's been found guilty of a massive £4.6m mortgage fraud. He'd secure properties at discount, apply for buy-to-let mortgages at the asking price, while Thomspon would assist in the fraudulent applications. The former police financial adviser was sentenced, today, to five and a half years. Jonathan got one year. Thompson got a suspended sentence and 200 hour of unpaid labour.

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