Jail for gang who stole £1m from Queen’s Bank

Southend

Three fraudsters who stole more than £1m from the Queen’s bank, Coutts, were jailed for a total of more than seven years. Former Coutts employee Luke Williams, 33, along with Francis Buckman, 35, and Ricky Burgess, 30, raided £1,222,161 from customer accounts between 1 January 2017 and 30 October 2017. The elite bank has looked after the accounts of Charles Dickens, Chopin, Lord Byron and every member of the royal family since George IV. Williams had access to customers’ confidential…

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