£18,000 fraud at new Airport control tower

Monday 29th March 2010, 2:56PM BST.

A SURVEYOR who created a fake company so he could get paid for work at the new Airport control tower has been sent to prison for two and half years.

Carl Vernon Shore – also known as Karl Shaw – was trusted by his employers, Style Windows, to supervise a contract at the Airport, the Royal Court heard on Friday.

The 45-year-old got Alufix Ltd to do the work for £14,000 but told his employers that Jager Contracts, a fake company, had completed the work for £18,000.

He then pretended that his bank account was that of Jager Contracts and got the money paid to him, the court heard.

Read the full story in the Jersey Evening Post. Click here for subscription details. Individual editions are also available online.