Pay back £80k or go to jail for an extra nine months

The son of a crooked company director who killed himself as the jury considered their verdicts in a £20m Ponzi scheme trial must pay more than £80,000 in compensation. Peter Benstead, 72, committed suicide days before jurors completed their deliberations on him, his wife Susan, 71, their son Julian and two accomplices in the foreign currency scam. Benstead hid mounting losses while plundering customer cash from his companies Crown Currency Exchange and Crown Holdings Limited to fund a lavish lifestyle…