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Oswestry housing association boss who stole £42,000 to feed gambling habit ‘could lose home and pension’

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Robert Wilson, 34, was a manager at the Nationwide branch in Oswestry’s Church Street and had worked his way up after starting as a customer representative in 2015.

But he stole cash from the housing association over a 42-month period between September 2019 and April 2023, making £42,742.36.

Wilson, of Ffordd Pentre, Mold, Clwyd, pleaded guilty to one count of theft and one count of false accounting and was sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court in September this year to two years in prison, suspended for 24 months.

This week he returned to the docks in Shrewsbury for a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing as prosecutors tried to recover some of his ill-gotten gains.

Debra White, representing Wilson, said her partner would be entitled to half of all his assets.

It was also suggested that the money from his pension could be used to pay off the debt.

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