Adviser stole £30k from vulnerable clients before fleeing to Portugal

John Dickinson worked for mutual Foresters Life and had been Annie Petherick and her son Andrew's financial adviser for 18 years before he started his swindle, according to the Western Morning News. He tricked the Petherwick's into handing over large cheques on the understanding he would invest the money for them, but instead used it to pay his tax and credit card bills. Dickinson emigrated to the Algarve just a month before he was due to attend a police interview into the thefts. Mrs Petherick, who was in her 70s, died while waiting to get her money back while her 50-year-old son,...