Wife of crooked coroner ‘yet to pay back tainted gift’

The wife of a crooked coroner who plundered £1.8m from the estates of the dead has still not paid back her ‘tainted gift’ of nearly £56,000, a court heard. Susan Crickmore was given the money as an annual ‘salary’ for administrative work by her husband Alan Crickmore, now 61, before he was arrested for fraud in 2011. In 2015, following his imprisonment for eight years, Alan Crickmore was ordered to pay back £992,678.82 within three months or face a further…