Finance manager fleeced university to buy house and take family to New York

A thieving finance manager who bought a house after he fleeced his cash-strapped university bosses out of £700,000 was jailed for four-and-a-half years. Emmanuel John, 43, took his family on a luxury trip to New York while draining the charity run Greenwich University out of vast amounts of cash. Emmanuel used the money he stole to buy a house and splashed vast amounts on household appliances while lavishing his children with gifts, Inner London Crown Court heard. He carried out…