A doctor has bravely opened up of his crippling gambling addiction which drove him to defraud NHS and lose 10,000 in one night.
Aled Jones, 39, hit rock bottom after losing the eye-watering sum on a single bet.
To service the debt, he resorted to claiming payment for overlapping shifts, falsifying cheques, carrying out out-on call shifts during his contracted hours and claiming payment for shifts he didn’t work – all while employed as a hospital registrar.
He took a grand total of 66,000 throughout the period of the fraud, between 2016 and 2019, while he was working at the University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff.
Aled reached rock bottom following his arrest and subsequent sentencing to a suspended prison sentence of two years, at Ca…
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