Personal Statement from Giovanni Di Stefano
On the 27 March 2013 after a two-month trial at Southwark Crown Court before HHJ McCreath and the jury, a verdict of guilty was returned on a number of counts involving a violation of the fraud act, and abuse of position. On the 28 March 2013 HHJ McCreath sentenced me to a manifestly excessive term of 14 years imprisonment. The sentence was based upon a false PNC (which was subsequently erased from the police national computer in April 2014)…