Three men accused of fraud offences at Royal Mail to face Crown court

[TrueBlueTerrier]

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/court ... rt-5243677

​Three men accused of offences at the Royal Mail have had their cases sent to the Crown Court.
The accused are Samuel Christie, Barry Falls and David Kinnear and the charges relate to between October 2020 and October 2023.

Samuel Christie (46), of Clare Heights in Ballyclare, faces four charges - two counts of fraud by abuse of position at the Royal Mail in that he allegedly 'caused to be paid, a leadership uplift' and that he 'caused to be paid, overtime hours that had not been worked'. He is also charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.

He faces a fourth charge - false accounting. It is alleged he 'destroyed, defaced, concealed or falsified a certain account record or document, namely leave records which had been made or required for an accounting purpose'.

Kinnear (56), whose address was given as Westbourne Avenue in Ballymena, and Falls (52), of Kilmakevit Square, Cullybackey, each face two charges - conspiracy to commit fraud by abuse of position 'namely that you would be party to an arrangement by which you were paid overtime hours that you had not worked'.

The second charge is that they 'dishonestly failed to take such steps as were reasonable in the circumstances to secure that a credit that you knew or believed to be wrong which had been made to an account kept by you or in respect of which you had a right or interest had been cancelled'.

The three men were side by side in the dock at Ballymena Magistrates' Court

A prosecutor submitted there is a case to answer and there were no contrary submissions from defence representatives. Each defendant was given continuing bail - in the sum of £500 with a condition not to contact each other. The cases were sent to Antrim Crown Court for arraignment on September 16.

[Deadly]

More to this?

[TopperGas]

The exact figures from FB:

"Three men accused of offences at the Royal Mail have had their cases at Ballymena Magistrates' Court further adjourned to May 29.
The accused are Samuel Christie, Barry Falls and David Kinnear.
Samuel Christie (46), with an address given as 111 Railway Street in Ballymena - which is a Royal Mail delivery office - faces a charge that on dates between November 2020 and October 2023, 'whilst occupying a position in which you were expected to safeguard, or not to act against the financial interests of Royal Mail Group, dishonestly abused that position in that you made fraudulent overpayments to Barry Falls and David Kinnear'.

Barry Falls (52), of Kilmakevit Square, Cullybackey, is charged with stealing £19,408 from Royal Mail between November 2020 and November 2023.

David Kinnear (56), whose address was given as Westbourne Avenue in Ballymena, is charged with theft of £6,624 belonging to Royal Mail Group 'on dates between May 2021 and October 2023'.

A prosecutor told the court it is a "very large file""

Caught out claiming ghost OT or a full blown OT fraud??

[hero22]

full blown fraud. A union rep amongst them

[Barnacle]

Is one a manager then? One of the charges involves a ‘up-lift’. Did a manager start paying someone as a manager, or maybe a work coach, when the person hadn’t been through the process for that position?

[Deadly]

Something similar happened a few years ago although it didn't get to court, but the perpetrators were sacked.

I can't remember where it was but we heard about it on the Royal Mail rumour jungle drums.

[ted_e_bear]

Sounds like Samuel Christie was paying the other two fake overtime ?

[Barnacle]

Sounds like Samuel Christie was paying the other two fake overtime ?

Funny, I was just looking this story up to try and find out what went on
Christie must be the manager and one of the other two was a rep.
The gossip in Ballymena office must be white hot.

[hero22]

Sounds like Samuel Christie was paying the other two fake overtime ?

Funny, I was just looking this story up to try and find out what went on
Christie must be the manager and one of the other two was a rep.
The gossip in Ballymena office must be white hot.

Thats it exactly. Paying fake overtime for a serious period of time. It happened a good while back , court appearance keeps getting moved back.

[Tomshone]

“Thats it exactly. Paying fake overtime for a serious period of time. It happened a good while back , court appearance keeps getting moved back.”

- How did it end up going to Crown court? I’m guessing the police were involved and that’s how the process started at the magistrate’s court?

Anymore detail on this? How was it picked up and who by?

[Barnacle]

“Thats it exactly. Paying fake overtime for a serious period of time. It happened a good while back , court appearance keeps getting moved back.”

- How did it end up going to Crown court? I’m guessing the police were involved and that’s how the process started at the magistrate’s court?

Anymore detail on this? How was it picked up and who by?

Because it has gone to court there will be no further info. Really frustrating
It’s on the Northern Ireland court reporter news website.