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Judges overturn GBP 2.3m embezzlement verdict
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A WEALTHY businessman yesterday won an appeal against his
conviction and five-year jail sentence for a GBP 2.3 million
embezzlement.
Iain Cowper, 59, had suffered a miscarriage of justice when the
judge misdirected the jury at his trial in 2002, the Court of
Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh ruled.
As well as wiping out the jury's guilty verdict and the jail term -
of which Cowper had served less than 24 hours before being freed
pending appeal - the court quashed what had been Scotland's largest
confiscation order, for GBP 1,080,622.
Edinburgh-born Cowper worked for the holiday firm Thomson for ...
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