article_snippet.sent: Judge Anthony Leonard QC said: 'In my judgement it must have been the two people who received the majority of the proceeds of the fraud were this defendant and Judge Anthony Leonard QC Common Law wife Ms Tipler.'
article_snippet.sent: Passing sentence in July last year, Judge Anthony Leonard QC Judge Anthony Leonard QC said that while Chaplin from Carshalton in Surrey was the 'main instigator', Tipler was 'invaluable' to the scam, which Judge Anthony Leonard QC said could have been 'catastrophic' for the hospital's patients.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Anthony Leonard QC told Chaplin from Carshalton in Surrey: 'It could only have been you who could have come up with the sophisticated and ingenious methods to ensure that your fraud went undetected. '
article_snippet.sent: Judge Anthony Leonard QC accepted that the crime was hatched by Scott Chaplin, 34, right, but said the position of trust you held was invaluable in your fraud.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Leonard said: 'The defendant maintains that Judge Leonard received nothing from the fraud that required Judge Leonard wife to act, as the jury found, to act fraudulently in his wife role as an accountant for the Royal Marsden Hospital. '
article_snippet.sent: Judge Leonard Judge Leonard refused to accept Judge Leonard account and ordered Judge Leonard to repay £115,000 from the £310,857 Judge Leonard defrauded within six months or face two more years in jail.