A SOLICITOR WHO DESTROYED HIS CAREER AND BROUGHT

A SOLICITOR WHO DESTROYED HIS CAREER AND BROUGHT DISASTER

ON HIS FAMILY WAS JAILED FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS ON TUESDAY FOR

HIS PART IN A FRAUD.

THE 3OO,OOO CON BROUGHT NOTHING BUT RUIN FOR 38 YEAR OLD

KENNETH EMMANUEL, SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT HEARD.

THE MONEY WENT TO FRIEND AND ACCOMPLICE ALI HAMMOUD WHO

SPENT IT ON ‘HIGH LIVING’, EXPENSIVE RESTAURANTS AND GAMBLING.

USING UNDERTAKINGS AND CHEQUES WRITTEN OUT BY EMMANUEL,

HAMMOUD CONNED BANKS AND FINANCE COMPANIES INTO LENDING HIM UP TO

#2O,OOO A TIME.

BUT NO WRITTEN ASSURANCES WERE GIVEN THAT THE MONEY OULD

EVER BE REPAID.

EMMANUEL TOLD THE COURT HE TRUSTED HAMMOUD TO PAY HIS DEBTS

AND BELIEVED THE MONEY WAS BEING USED TO EXPORT CARPETS, WHISKY, AND

TYRES, TO THE IVORY COAST.

BUT EMMANUEL’S ‘FOOLISHNESS’ LED HIM TO FINANCIAL AND

PERSONAL RUIN.

JAILING EMMANUEL JUDGE EDWARD COX SAID: ‘YOU PLAYED A VITAL

PART IN THIS.

YOU USED YOUR POSITION AS A SOLICITOR TO OBTAIN MONEY

FROM PEOPLE.

‘YOU ARE A YOUNG MAN BUT YOU HAVE RUINED YOUR CAREER AND

BROUGHT DISASTER ON YOUR FAMILY.

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HAMMOUD, WHO WAS JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS AND WITH A

RECOMMENDATION FOR DEPORTATION WAS TOLD BY JUDGE COX: ‘YOU BEHAVED IN

A DISGRACEFUL MANNER AND WITH APPARENT TOTAL DISREGARD.

‘YOU SET OUT TO GET MONEY AND YOU GOT IT.

I ACCEPT YOU

COULD NOT HAVE COMMITTED THIS OFFENCE WITHOUT THE AID OF A SOLICITOR

BUT I TAKE THE VIEW THAT YOU WERE THE ORIGINATOR.

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EMMANUEL, OF HEADSTONE LANE, NORTH HARROW, AND HAMMOUD,

OF PARK LANE, MAYFAIR, BOTH DENIED 13 COUNTS OF OBTAINING ROPERTY BY

DECEPTION BETWEEN OCTOBER, 1983 AND SEPTEMBER 1985.

ENDS.

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