Ex-Tube driver jailed for fraud

12 April 2012

A former Tube driver has been jailed for eight months after attempting to steal £35,000 in a "sophisticated" fraud.

Stewart Mills used forged documents to pretend he was a company director before demanding the cash in US dollars at a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Woking, Surrey.

But staff became suspicious and the 48-year-old conman fled empty-handed. Mills, of King's Cross, admitted fraud and other charges at Wood Green crown court.

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