Tony Dettmar

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

Tony Dettmar, a solicitor's clerk employed as office account cashier at Forsyte Saunders Kerman, misappropriated £15,981.81 from the firm's office account between June 1995 and March 1996. He pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and two of false accounting (with 20 further offences taken into consideration) and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. The Tribunal found the allegation substantiated and made a Section 43(2) order controlling his future employment within the profession, ordering him to pay costs of £2,113.19. He did not appear.

Duties found breached:

• Proper basis for allegations
• No improper use of client money

Aggravating factors:

• Held a position of trust and responsibility as office account cashier
• Sustained course of misappropriation using varying methods over several months
• Twenty other offences taken into consideration on sentence