Let-off for the £82k swindler

A finance manager who swindled £82,000 from his bosses to fund his online gambling addiction was spared jail and given three years to pay the money back. David Philips (corr), 37, worked at a software firm called AlfaPeople where he was supposed to ‘safeguard’ the company’s monetary interests. But after starting with small bets, Philips began siphoning cash from his employer’s accounts to recoup his losses with Betfair. He was caught out by a colleague’s review into the finances at…