Pawnbroker helped launder £1million for ギャング(団) of rogue 建設業者s who scammed the 年輩の out of their life 貯金 and celebrated when one of their 犠牲者s died?

  • Harvey White, 49, laundered money through pawn shop in Clacton, Essex
  • He cashed cheques paid to rogue 建設業者s from 攻撃を受けやすい 犠牲者s
  • £1million of £9million that passed through 商売/仕事 was traced to ギャング(団)
  • But police could not speak to all 犠牲者s and believe total could be more

Jailed: Pawnbroker Harvey White, pictured, used his business to cover up the proceeds of the scam

刑務所,拘置所d: Pawnbroker Harvey White, pictured, used his 商売/仕事 to cover up the proceeds of the scam

A pawnbroker helped launder £1million for a ギャング(団) of rogue 建設業者s who conned 年輩の and 攻撃を受けやすい 犠牲者s out of their life 貯金.?

Harvey White, 49, used his 商売/仕事 in Clacton, Essex, to cover up the proceeds of the scam, which saw the ギャング(団) of six 建設業者s overcharging their 顧客s for work to their homes.

Most of the cheques used to 支払う/賃金 for the building work - which was often left incomplete - were paid out at White's pawnshop, where he had a licence to cash cheques.

概略で £9million passed through the 商売/仕事 over a five-year period, but police could only trace £1million 支援する to the ギャング(団) of 建設業者s, who operated in north Essex, Chelmsford 栄冠を与える 法廷,裁判所 heard.

But, as more than half of the 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd 140 犠牲者s 接触するd were unwilling to help and others died before enough 証拠 was collected, police believe that the actual 量 of money laundered was much higher.

White, from Clacton, was 刑務所,拘置所d for nine years after 存在 罪人/有罪を宣告するd of laundering money and six ギャング(団) members were 宣告,判決d in July for their 役割s in the scam.?

裁判官 John Dodd QC said: 'Some £9million passed through your accounts between 2008 and 2013, but it has not been possible to find the provenance of all that money,

'What we do know is you did have a 完全に dishonest 味方する to your 商売/仕事 where the 原則 money laundering for this ギャング(団) of rogue 建設業者s took place. You were an 絶対 決定的な part of this.'??

Two of the ギャング(団) members were caught on tape celebrating the death of one of their 犠牲者s, who had been duped out of £123,000, because she wouldn't be able to 証言する against them.??

And widower Andrew Millar, who is blind, believes the ギャング(団) stole at least £300,000 from him.

The 68-year-old had known the ギャング(団)'s ringleader, James Brown Snr, for 25 years because the 建設業者 had carried out work for his late wife, Marjorie.?

While 92-year-old Helen Reeve-Smith, from Clacton, paid more than £10,000 in cheques for work that was left incomplete.?

探偵,刑事s 設立する CCTV of Brown Snr taking Mrs Smith to a bank to 身を引く money in a 明確に in a 混乱させるd 明言する/公表する. She died in June last year.

Cover: Roughly £9million passed through White's business in Colchester, Essex (pictured) and police believe he would have laundered more than the £1million that was traced to the gang of six rogue builders

Cover: 概略で £9million passed through White's 商売/仕事 in Colchester, Essex (pictured) and police believe he would have laundered more than the £1million that was traced to the ギャング(団) of six rogue 建設業者s

Ringleader James Brown 上級の, 45, of Colchester, was 刑務所,拘置所d for 10 years for his part in the scam.?

His son, James Brown Jnr, brother, William Brown, and 共犯者s, Peter Biddle and 先頭 Purdy, were 刑務所,拘置所d in July for their 関与. Anthony Symes was 手渡すd a two-year 一時停止するd 刑務所,拘置所 宣告,判決.

Andrew Shaw, 起訴するing, said White was 信用d by the ギャング(団).

He said: 'These sort of men were not using an innocent dupe. They did not go to someone they did not know or 信用.

Ringleader James Brown Snr
William Brown was jailed for seven years

Scam: Ringleader James Brown Snr (left) was 刑務所,拘置所d for 10 years for his part in the scam, which saw the men overcharge 年輩の 犠牲者s for building work. His brother, William Brown (権利), was 刑務所,拘置所d for seven years

'Harvey White is a professional 犯罪の, a professional villain. They used a professional.'

White did not give 証拠 in his 裁判,公判.

When he was interviewed, he told police he did not know the cheques were the proceeds of 罪,犯罪.??????

HOW CRIMINALS CELEBRATED THEIR 87-YEAR-OLD VICTIM'S DEATH

Two of the 建設業者s 伴う/関わるd in the scam were 記録,記録的な/記録するd celebrating the death of one of their 年輩の 犠牲者s.

Ringleader James Brown Snr and his 共犯者 William Brown had tricked 87-year-old Grace Gibbs into spending £123,000 on unnecessary building work.?

And they celebrated the fact that she couldn't give 証拠 against them after discovering that she had died on Christmas Eve in 2012.?

In a 記録,記録的な/記録するing, Wi lliam Brown said: 'She’s gone, Jim, it’s good news init.'

James Brown Snr replied: 'It is, isn’t it.'

The men then discussed that it was '癌 that killed her' before they agreed that it was the 推論する/理由 why the police hadn't 接触するd them again.?

Mrs Gibbs was one of a 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd 140 犠牲者s who were conned by the ギャング(団), who targetted 犠牲者s in north Essex.?

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