A CROOKED lawyer who fleeced money from clients then contributed to a parcel firm going bust has been jailed for eight months.
David Nightingale, 35, pocketed almost £20,000 from Prompt Parcel Ltd when he worked as a salesman.
Clients of the company - who provide courier services - were given personal bank details by scheming Nightingale only months after he had been in court.
When a colleague queried an unpaid invoice it lead back to the disgraced former lawyer.
The company have since folded which the court heard is “partly” to do with the fraudster.
Nightingale, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court where he admitted embezzling £19, 618 between April and December, 2015 at the company based in Glasgow’s Washington Street.
He was ordered to do 300 hours of unpaid work and pay £7,000 to his victims in that case.
Earlier this year, he admitted stealing £8,000 from a client in 2011 while working at a Hamilton law firm and the recent sentence was in relation to this.
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