Let-off for gambling addict who tried to empty stranger’s bank account

  A fraudster who tried to pay off his gambling and drug debts by emptying a stranger’s bank account was spared jail. David Bluestone, 64, swiped £9,900 from James Harman’s Santander account using a fake Italian driving licence. Bluestone then tried to fleece another £13,000 from the same victim just days later but bank staff in Edgware, north London, alerted police to the dodgy transaction. Prosecutor Alexander Matic said: ‘On April 7 this year police were called to the Santander…