Ex-adviser jailed for five years over £465k client theft

An ex-Legal & General (L&G) adviser has been jailed for five years after stealing close to half a million pounds from a vulnerable elderly couple.

Mark Towson, 52, took the money from his clients, a 91-year-old woman and her husband who suffered from dementia, to pay off his own debts. The Herald Scotland reports Towson, who still denies taking the money, was sentenced to five years in prison at Paisley Sheriff Court on Friday. He was found guilty of the crime at an earlier hearing. It was earlier revealed that Townson of Baillieston, Glasgow, had worked for L&G for 18 years, dealing with clients throughout Scotland and in Northern Ireland. He advised the couple, Mr and Mrs McDowell, for ten years until 2013. The coupl...