The Business of Lying

Aside from gullible and impressionable women, Howard targeted a number of local business in an effort to con them out of goods and services. He used his lottery lie to open lines of credit worth thousands of pounds with local suppliers

and merchants. He wrote checks for goods and services for his business and of course, all of them bounced since there wasn’t any actual money to honor them.

During the trial, prosecutor for the crown, Paul Watson told the court that Walmsley had opened several bank accounts using forged documents. kbc head office number punjab These bank accounts included significant overdraft facilities which he then used to facilitate

his lottery lie. Walmsley had even gone so far as lying to police in an effort to convince them that the lottery win was, in fact, true, but eventually recanted and admitted that it was all a lie. He went on to admit guilt to twelve

counts of deception as well as one count of false accounting.

All for Kathy

Kathy Walmsley

Kathy Walmsley

According to Walmsley, everything he did was for his wife, Kathy. This included the revelation that he intended to purchase a 17th-century manor house in their home county of Derbyshire, worth an estimated £300,000. He even went as far

as commissioning an architect to draw up renovation plans which included a massive swimming pool and as many as four garages. Walmsley wrote a check for £294,000 to cover the sale of the property and deposited into his solicitor’s

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