Cancer claim worker was ‘scamming firm’

  A tech firm employee lied about having terminal cancer and then used his sick leave to concoct an elaborate scam that cost his company over £1 million, a court heard. Christopher Theile, 39, allegedly created a series of fictional characters from an internet cafe in Walthamstow, east London, that duped his bosses at Flashbay Ltd. He told the USB manufacturers he had pancreatic cancer and needed time off work with sick pay for treatment in January 2013. When he…