A BROMLEY accountant who stole £150,000 from family trusts and failed to distribute cash to cancer charities has been jailed for 24 months.
Ronald Bassett-Cross, 70, of Sandford Road, Bromley, was sentenced at the Old Bailey after he pleaded guilty to six counts of theft and three counts of fraud by abuse of position.
Bassett-Cross was a partner at now defunct accountancy firm Vantis, but was struck off for misappropriating client money in 2009.
He admitted stealing credit balances ranging from £8,970 to £62,845 from trusts between August 1992 and June 2004.
He also admitted three fraud charges related to an abuse of position as a trustee, including failing to distribute monies to Cancer Research UK and the Marie Curie Foundation.
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