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Ex-Birmingham Dogs Home boss jailed for £900k fraud Ex-Birmingham Dogs Home boss jailed for £900k fraud
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The former boss of Birmingham Dogs Home has been jailed for five years for defrauding the charity of £900,000 over a four-year period.The former boss of Birmingham Dogs Home has been jailed for five years for defrauding the charity of £900,000 over a four-year period.
Simon Price, 53, pleaded guilty before magistrates in November to 10 counts of fraud by abuse of position. Simon Price, 53, of Somerton Drive, Solihull, had pleaded guilty to 10 counts of fraud by abuse of position.
His ex-partner Alayna Price, 39, admitted five counts of the same charge. He admitted fraud for sums ranging between £9,690 for a false invoice and £399,350 connected to the sale of a house.
A judge at Birmingham Crown Court handed her a two-year suspended sentence. His ex-partner Alayna Price, 39, was handed a two-year suspended sentence.
Alayna Price, who is pregnant and of Hill Village Road, Sutton Coldfield, admitted five counts of the same charge, relating to "legacy payments" amounting to about £254,000.
At a previous hearing, the court heard Alayna Price, the charity's commercial manager, had paid back £130,000 to the home.
The offences at the Solihull-based charity all happened between February 2012 and June last year.