# Fundraising conman sentenced to three years

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/01/12/fundraising-conman-sentenced-three-years/
- Published: 2004-01-12T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A man who set up “Starlight Fundraising” as a “good cause” but who used the £113,000
he raised to pay off his mortgage and buy a car has been jailed for three years 
at Bradford Crown Court.
Dean White was convicted on 27 charges of going equipped
to cheat. He got away with his activities for three years before a worker from the
similarly-named and genuine charity Starlight Childrens Foundation alerted the police.

Oddly he did pass on £1,550 to Barnardo’s and £1,100 to the British Institute for
Brain Injured Children from the money he raised.

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