Editor's note: "Fraud of the Dead"...sound like everyday occurrence in the Probate Court of Cook County. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Coroner Alan Crickmore pleads guilty to £2 million fraud of the dead
A coroner has pleaded guilty to a £2 million fraud which saw him steal some of the money from the estates of the dead.
Crickmore was suspended from his post as coroner when allegations were first made and he has now resigned. Photo: CENTRAL NEWS
Alan Crickmore, 57, admitted 16 counts of theft, seven of fraud by abuse of position and one of fraud between 1999 and 2011 when he appeared at Southwark Crown Court.
It also emerged that he has quit as Gloucestershire Coroner.
At an earlier hearing, a court heard that Crickmore was charged with abusing his position as a solicitor and abusing his position as an executor of a dead person's estate.
Crickmore, of East Approach Drive, Cheltenham was released on bail by Judge Anthony Leonard QC ahead of his sentencing on November 28.
Police had launched an inquiry in January 2011 into alleged breaches of the solicitors' code of conduct and accounting rules at Crickmore's law firm in Cheltenham.
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