End of career for cop who stole £4k from dead man

A crooked police officer who stole £4,000 from a dead man and claimed his son was critically ill to get more than two months off work has been thrown out of the force. PC Robert Ward, 36, also grabbed £10,000 of money seized from suspects by forging his colleague’s signatures and spent thousands of it gambling online. Ward stole a total of £13,625 – including two cheques for £4,000 from a 70 year old man called Peter Jones who had…