Wick diver given chance to pay back stolen £48,000
A globe-trotting deep-sea diver from Wick has been given six months to repay £48,000 he stole with a forged cheque.
Judge Jamie Tabor, sitting at Gloucester Crown Court, took the unusual step after he heard that Matthew Maisey’s work, where he lives in a capsule for up to a month at a time and dives to great depths, allows him to earn large amounts of money.
Maisey (36), of Bank Row, changed his plea at the last minute on the day set for his trial, and admitted forging a cheque in January 2006 belonging to Strongwork Construction of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, to gain £48,600 for himself or another.
He denied a further charge of obtaining a money transfer by deception, and this charge was not proceeded with.
*For more on this story see Friday’s John O’Groat Journal.
