IT man nicked flogged a load of stolen laptops

An IT technician has admitted handling stolen laptops worth tens of thousands of pounds from Mastercard’s London headquarters, a court heard. Chukwunweike Nwabude, 27, handled 33 laptops while working at the US credit card giant’s service desk between January and August 2023. Nwabude, of Thurrock, Essex, was due to be sentenced but Judge Sally-Ann Hales said he appeared to have admitted theft in his pre-sentence report. The charge carries a lesser sentence than handling. The judge said ‘It is a…