District judge stole £800k – must pay back £50k

A district judge who plundered nearly £800,000 from customers of his law firm to fund a party lifestyle with his extravagant lover was ordered to pay back just £51,938. Simon Kenny, 60, and his assistant Emma Coates, 48, splashed out on lavish trips, a Range Rover and a hot tub while ransacking client funds at CK Solicitors in Selsey, West Sussex, over a period of four years. Coates, who swindled £85,000 from an elderly client’s will after she died, built…