Bent travel boss takes a trip – after he was booked for a stay in prison

A travel company boss who swindled £24,000 from a City of London guild has vanished after he was booked in for a one-way trip to jail. Nicholas Reese, 58, was paid £24,500 to arrange flights to Pisa and reserve hotel rooms in Florence for 35 staff from the Chartered Accountants’ Livery Company. He ruined the guild’s holiday plans when he kept the cash and spent it on his own bookings at luxury hotels and restaurants. Reese told the holiday makers…