Sports editor jailed for defrauding paper €440,000
Lee Horton used his position at The People to deceive owners Trinity Mirror for eight years, inventing 1,690 claims by contributors for sums between €180 and €460, knowing that only payments over €600 had to be referred to bosses.
He shuffled 12 different accounts for the non-existent stories, paying himself a total of €440,911.
