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Headmaster stole from school

A headmaster has been jailed after admitting stealing £53,000 from a fund set up to pay for a new hall at his Flintshire school.

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Headmaster jailed for stealing to feed gambling habit

Andrew Wilkie took the money from his school with cheques and online transfers Credit: Andrew Price / View Finder Pictures

A Flintshire headmaster has been jailed for 16 months for stealing £53,000 of school funds to pay for a gambling addiction. He stole from a charitable fund for an extension to the school hall at Southdown Primary School in Buckley, where he'd worked for 17 years - the last three as headmaster.

He admitted two theft charges with eight similar offences taken into consideration. Mold Crown Court, sitting in Chester, heard how Andrew Wilkie, 41, first blew family savings of £90,000 and remortgaged his home after taking up online poker.

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