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A married couple have been sentenced after going on family holidays abroad with money stolen from celebrity chef Stephen Terry.
Nicola Nightingale, 48, and Simon Nightingale, 50, took £150,000 from the Great British Menu chef while working at his popular restaurant The Hardwick, in Abergavenny, Wales, a court heard. Mr Terry, who was Gordon Ramsey’s best man, opened the award-winning gastropub in 2005 and it has since become one of the most iconic restaurants in the country.
The couple were handed two-year suspended sentences at Cardiff Crown Court today (May 22). The court heard how Mrs Nightingale, who was employed as Mr Terry's office administrator between February 2018 and March 2020, had issues with alcoholism and mental health and used the money to fund her spending addiction.
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Across a two-year period, the mother-of-four redirected almost £47,000 into her husband's bank account, made direct payments of more than £50,000 into her own account, inflated her wages by £6,000 and made additional payments to herself disguised as paid wages of £47,000. In total, the amount stolen from the restaurant was £150,234.62.
Prosecutor Tom Roberts said: “Nicola Nightingale began working there [The Hardwick] on February 13 2018 and was responsible for managing the business’s accounts and finances. In March of 2020, as the Covid lockdown came into effect, Mr Terry became suspicious of her behaviour.
“He and his wife contacted HSBC and found there were payments made directly to Mrs Nightingale outside the normal payment structure amounting at that stage to about £27,000.”
Mr Roberts said Mr Terry attempted to contact the couple to get the login details for their
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