Medic who doctored his pay and swindled £68,000 from the NHS cannot return to hospital work
Dr Aled Meirion Jones stole 420 cheques from the bereavement services department at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff over a two-year period. He doctored his pay and swindled £68,000 from NHS to pay for his £800,00 gambling habit.
Dr Aled Meirion Jones, 41, stole 420 cheques from the bereavement services department at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff over a two-year period. He forged cheque books and made false claims for shifts he didn't work. His flat was repossessed after he failed to make mortgage payments. Jones developed a gambling addiction while studying at Oxford University. In 2009 he lost £10,000 in one night betting on tennis matches. A tribunal extended his suspension for four more months. He will be sentenced to two years in prison in March 2021, suspended for two, and ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work in October 2021.
