BBC News - Coroner Alan Crickmore guilty of stealing from dead
Coroner Alan Crickmore guilty of stealing from dead
Alan Crickmore
Crickmore was suspended from duty in December 2010
Fraud-accused coroner before judge
A coroner has pleaded guilty to a £2m fraud that saw him steal some of the money from the estates of dead people.
Gloucestershire coroner Alan Crickmore, 57, of East Approach Drive, Cheltenham pleaded guilty to 24 counts of fraud at Southwark Crown Court.
Police said Crickmore had been stealing money while acting as probate and using the cash as his own "piggy bank".
Alan Crickmore
Crickmore was suspended from duty in December 2010
Fraud-accused coroner before judge
A coroner has pleaded guilty to a £2m fraud that saw him steal some of the money from the estates of dead people.
Gloucestershire coroner Alan Crickmore, 57, of East Approach Drive, Cheltenham pleaded guilty to 24 counts of fraud at Southwark Crown Court.
Police said Crickmore had been stealing money while acting as probate and using the cash as his own "piggy bank".
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