Council boss ‘nicked £1m from the pension fund’

A pension fund manager at one of the richest authorities in the UK stole nearly £1m from a council employee retirement pot to buy a new house and car, a court heard. Ian Woodall, 47, tricked colleagues into signing off payments from the £1billion pension fund by disguising them as investments, jurors heard. Woodall allegedly siphoned off £924,841 from Westminster City Council, between 2009 and 2012, while employed as the pension fund manager. He is said to have moved the…