‘Save our Soldiers’ charity scammers all avoid jail

Southend-on-Sea

A gang of crooked charity bosses have walked free after taking more than £500,000 in donations by employing an army of fake veterans to collect cash for disabled soldiers. Collectors wearing ‘Save our Soldiers’ tops and camouflage trousers were deployed at railway stations across the country in the two year scam. Commuters handed over their change for disabled former Army personnel in the fraud which netted at least £547,000 in donations, Wood Green Crown Court heard. David Papagavriel, 57, Terence…

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