article_snippet: Six former employees of a welfare-to-work firm were jailed yesterday for forging files in a scam that cost the taxpayer almost £300,000.
article_snippet: Another four ex-members of staff received suspended prison sentences for what Judge Angela Morris Judge Angela Morris said were ‘deceitful and unscrupulous’ practices.
article_snippet: The ten people sentenced yesterday falsified employer details, time sheets and jobseeker signatures to inflate the numbers
article_snippet: The ten people sentenced yesterday said The ten people sentenced yesterday had helped into work.
article_snippet: recruiter Julie Grimes, 52, from Staines, Surrey, who was jailed for 26 months, was put under huge pressure to meet unrealistic targets by managers who did not care how she met recruiter Julie Grimes, 52, from Staines, Surrey, who was jailed for 26 months, the court heard.
article_snippet: ’ Dean Lloyd, 38, of Milton Keynes, who received a 15-month sentence, had no idea about the ‘dishonesty intrinsic in
article_snippet: until after he had accepted the job, the hearing was told.
article_snippet: ’ Contract manager Ines Cano-Uribe, 39, of Madrid, was jailed for 18 months, while Charles McDonald, 44, of Egham, Surrey, who faked documents to get bonuses to support his drug habit, received a sentence of 40 months.
article_snippet: Judge Angela Morris, sentencing the group to 15 years in prison at Reading Crown Court today, said the group had carried out 'deceitful and unscrupulous practices' during the group work on the contract .
article_snippet: There was also a prison term of 22 months for Nikki Foster, 31, of Reading, and one of 15 months for Bindiya Dholiwar, 29, of Slough.
article_snippet: 12-month sentences were given to Zabar Khalil, 35, of Slough, Matthew Hannigan-Train, 31, of Bristol, and Hayley Wilson, 27, of Milton Keynes.
article_snippet: Aditi Singh, 32, of Slough received a ten-month suspended sentence.
article_snippet: Cano-Uribe, Khalil, Hannigan-Train and Hayley Wilson had denied forgery, but were found guilty by a jury after a trial that lasted for 12 weeks.
article_snippet: The other six pleaded guilty.
highlights_snippet: Judge Angela Morris sentenced group of 10 workers to a total of 15 years .
  