Convicted £50m mortgage fraudster to appeal

McGarry's solicitor Anil Rajani, partner at IBB Solicitors, said his client was "devastated" by the severity of the sentence handed down by Judge Beddoe at the Southwark Crown Court yesterday. Rajani said: "Mr McGarry had pleaded guilty at the first reasonable opportunity, he had co-operated fully with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigators in providing them with assistance about the involvement of others and had waited in excess of five years to be sentenced. "The SFO has taken nearly four years to make a decision to charge Mr McGarry from the time of his first arrest in March ...