Crooked coroner wants tax rebate

A crooked coroner who plundered £2m from the estates of the dead wants to claw back more than £250,000 from the taxman, a court heard today. Alan Crickmore, 59, used the cash to treat his family on luxury cruises on the QE2 and a champagne reception at Cheltenham Racecourse. The former solicitor also drove a Jaguar with a personalised HMC number plate – the initials standing for Her Majesty’s Coroner. The shamed Gloucestershire coroner was jailed for eight years in…