Coroner struck off

Gloucestershire coroner and solicitor Alan Crickmore has been struck off after taking nearly £2m from clients. He is currently serving an eight-year sentence for the same fraud. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found he misappropriated clients’ funds and used them for his own benefit, withdrew and transferred monies from the client bank account and took unfair advantage of a client. JC Chesterton, chair of the panel, says: “This tribunal rarely sees such conscious impropriety on such a scale over such a sustained period of time.” The Solicitors Regulation Authority has paid out more than £250,000 from the Solicitors Compensation Fund to Crickmore’s victims.