Government crook shopped by his mum

A Department for Education manager who stole more than £1 million to buy a luxury flat and ‘a nice desk’ was jailed for more than three years after he was shopped by his girlfriend. Edward Chapman, 37, pocketed the cash initially in order to buy himself a flat in Rochester, Kent, before upgrading to a £850,000 Wandsworth home. He set up fake swimming-related ‘shell companies’ to help himself to left-over funds from the department of which his mother is a…