A doctor has spoken of his crippling gambling addiction which led him to defrauding the NHS and losing 10,000 in one night on a tennis match.
Aled Jones resorted to claiming payment for overlapping shifts, falsifying cheques, carrying out out-on call shifts during his contracted hours and making claims for payment for shifts he didn’t work – all while employed as a registrar at the University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff.
Throughout the period of the fraud, between 2016 and 2019, he took 66,000.
The 39-year-old reached rock bottom following his arrest and subsequent sentencing to a suspended prison sentence of two years, at Cardiff Crown Court in March.
But since then he has battled against his gambling addiction which took over ever…
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