Council worker who made almost £250,000 holding down four jobs at the same time is jailed for three years
A council employee who won about £ 250,000 by keeping four different work in more than one local authority has been imprisoned for three years.
Gloucestershire, 66 -year -old Bryn Howells of Stroud, two regional councils and three more services before being caught.
Fakes could not declare their current jobs and sent false timeline and allowed them to gain a total salary and benefits of £ 236,000 between February 2022 and June 2023.
At the same time, Howells worked for Tewkesbury District Council, South Gloucestershire Council and Publicica Group.
Instead, he rejected any injustice by saying that he was motivated by the desire to support local councils where qualified personnel were inadequate.
Howells also claimed that none of the local authorities had financially suffer as a result of their actions and has always completed their work.
However, on Thursday, Gloucester Crown Court jailed in jail, the judge Malcom Gibney, the 66 -year -old child ‘sun shining’ hay made ‘he said.
He said that Howells is working in more than one job in the information that the council would not control him.
Bryn Howlls (in the Picture), 66, Stroud, Gloucestershire, two regional councils and for another company serving before the capture worked for another company
Howells was imprisoned for three years in the Gloucester Crown Court on Thursday.
Howells worked at the same time for the Tewkesbury District Council (in the Picture), South Gloucestershire Council and Publica Group between February 2022 and June 2023
Gloucester Crown Court previously heard that a strategic housing and activation officer at the Tewkesbury Council’s Tewkesbury Council was employed as a Senior Development Surveyor at the South Gloucestershire Council and as a value and Estates surveyor in Publica Group.
In July, he was sentenced to fake representation and six frauds from three frauds.
Howells’ injustice appeared in the review of payroll data by the Fraud Unit of the Tewkesbury Council.
At that time, he resigned from the Southern Gloucestershire Council, but was still employed by the Tewkesbury Council and the Publicica Group.
Like a judge who sentenced Howells to three years in prison BBC: ‘It is clear that the work is good when you work.
“ You are an experienced man in your profession. You are a man who has a passion for work.
‘This was an opportunity to make a straw while the sun shines, and for local authorities, you can earn a significant amount of money that trusts the information they are not diligent in determining that you do everything that determines you.’
