article_snippet: Anthony Brumwell, who has previously defrauded other members of A man with an addiction to chat lines family, spent £15,000 of A man with an addiction to chat lines and extended his grandmother overdraft.
article_snippet: Ian Mullarkey, prosecuting, said the issue came to light when a £5,000 loan application was posted to Brumwell's father, despite carrying the defendant's phone number.
article_snippet: Other family members quickly checked Brumwell's father 's finances and realised what was happening.
article_snippet: While the 31-year-old was on bail for theft and fraud against Brumwell's father Brumwell's father turned Brumwell's father attention to employer Start Energy, for whom Brumwell's father was account manager.
article_snippet: Brumwell, from Blackhall Colliery, County Durham, set up a bogus £10,400 'deal' through the Peterlee-based business for an electricity meter for another company.
article_snippet: But Brumwell's father gave Brumwell's father own bank details on invoices for payments.
article_snippet: Brumwell's father said this caused Start Energy major difficulties as the other company cancelled a large contract, resulting in the loss of four jobs.
article_snippet: The court heard Brumwell's father financial difficulties began when Brumwell's father started using premium rate chat lines as a teenager, taking out payday loans to try to meet Brumwell's father debts along with the cost of everyday living.