Bent brief told to hand over £890k

A crooked solicitor jailed for conning elderly investors in a £5m banking scam was ordered to pay victims nearly £890,000 or face another three-and-a-half years in prison. Dale Walker, 57, helped a gang of corrupt ‘performance brokers’ encouraging clients to remortgage their homes and cash in their nest eggs in the hope of sky-high returns. One 60 year-old victim was persuaded to hand over the money he received after his wife’s death – leading one of the salesmen to boast:…