Greg Rutherford ‘left feeling sick’ by ex-manager who stole £48k to fund gambling habit

People in and out of the public eye rely upon companies such as yours to supply management so they can concentrate on their profession or their talent. What you did was to take advantage of Greg Rutherford’s trust for your own addictive pleasure – a gambling habit which you had addressed in the past but which resurfaced. You lied to him, because what you were doing was to repeatedly betray the trust he had placed in you, by getting your finances into such a state you were spending money on gambling which should have been spent on your business and paying him what was owed to him. You told him he had made a bad investment and that had resulted in him losing £40,000.

Mr Rutherford, in his victim impact statement, stated the thought of someone responsible for a huge part of his life and work, someone who he put trust in to handle a major source of income, was in fact being dishonest just left him feeling sick. He talked of the stress on him and his family because of the financial consequences, not least being potentially liable for income tax on money he had never received, and the need to keep funding training under severe financial pressures resulting from your dishonesty.