Rogue trader’s sentence means one thing - steal millions, not cents

AT least, for a change, the Government can’t be blamed for the disappearance of the €5.7 million in a scam that left some people without their life savings.

Because somebody has stocks and shares doesn’t necessarily mean they’re in the millionaire bracket, but whether or not, Stephen Pearson couldn’t have cared less.

He merrily ripped off unfortunate people, from pensioners in their nineties to clients with more than e1 million to spare, to a children’s charity when he was a partner in W&R Morrogh, the stockbroking firm.