Squaddies ‘defrauded MoD’

Seven ex-soldiers took part in an expenses scam on the Ministry of Defence, a court heard. Lauren Rose, 40, Alan O’Neil, 46, Lee Richards, 39, Anthony Sharwood, 36, Amy Sheldon, 36, Aaron Stelmach-Purdie, 32 and Peter Wilson, 53, appeared at Southwark Crown Court. Simon Lees, 30, and a soldier serving in the Household Cavalry Regiment who cannot be named, were also in on the fraud, which ran between 2014 and 2016, it is claimed. Stelmach-Purdie, of Oldham, denied seven counts…