Convicted Scots conman died owing £5,000 in withheld wages
dailyrecord.co.ukA convicted conman who tried to sue firms for millions withheld almost £5000 in wages from an employee before being found dead.
Christopher Ireland – previously jailed for fraud and branded a “Walter Mitty” over a series of failed businesses – was found dead in his Dundee flat in January.
Now an employment tribunal has ruled he “unlawfully” withheld £4890 from an employee in the months before his death. A judgment revealed admin assistant Medya Mahmoud found out about her boss’s death when the Record reported it.
The tribunal ordered Ireland and his firm Jute, Jam and Journalism Group to pay Mahmoud three months of missing wages. Ireland, who called himself “Dr Christopher Ireland”, was jailed in April 2012 after admitting five fraud charges in which almost £50,000 was lost by creditors.
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