Nigerian accountant and pastor, Samuel Kayode has been sentenced to nine years in prison by a South London court for stealing more than £4million. He was sentenced on Friday by Woolwich Crown Court for defrauding Haberdashers’ Aske’s State Schools in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail has reported.
The part-time pastor, who earned £57, 000 per annum, was convicted after he was found guilty of £150,000 theft and £3.95million fraud.
Out of the stolen £4.1million, only £800, 000 was recovered from him.
The jailed pastor was labelled “dishonest” and “greedy”, as the court heard how he lavished the stolen money on four women, his wife, Grace; a second ‘wife’ in Nigeria, Olubunmi Halima and two other women in the UK.
British prosecutor, James Thacker, said Kayode also bought luxury cars including a Mercedes, an Audi TT sports car and an Infiniti car with the stolen money.
Kayode, said to be secretive looted the accounts of Haberdasher for seven years. “Locking himself in his office to work late, after arriving in a Mercedes, wearing £500 Gucci shoes and carrying a Louis Vuitton briefcase.”
The prosecutor told the court that Kayode, father of four children from Ilford, East London, “was too arrogant to admit his guilt even after he was caught red-handed in 2012”.
He got exposed when a school cleaner stumbled on some of Kayode’s confidential documents and immediately made an anonymous call to the schools’ Chief Finance Officer, Yvonne Smithers.
Kayode has blamed his travails on his late wife and a junior colleague. He said that they conspired to rubbish his image by transferring the money to his account in revenge for his adultery.
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