Former finance boss jailed for sending Harborough travel firm to the wall will spend even longer behind bars after he plundered over £800,000 from another company

A former finance boss jailed for sending a Market Harborough travel firm to the wall will spend even longer behind bars after he plundered over £800,000 from another company.

Jamie Tann, 39, was jailed for three years four months at Leicester Crown Court at the end of February after he swindled Diamond Shortbreak Holidays out of almost £700,000.

Now the disgraced ex-finance boss has had two and a half years added to his sentence after he stole a £863,317 from a company based in Wrexham, North Wales, in a bid to pay off his debts.

Tann hid the fact he was already at the centre of an intense police probe when he was made financial director of CPP Building Products in October 2017.

The chartered accountant admitted three counts of theft and one charge of fraud at Mold Crown Court on Wednesday August 12.

Tann was accused by Judge Niclas Parry of “betrayal and quite staggering greed”.

“What you did was to move from one employer to the other, having been involved in dishonesty against the first employer for nearly three years, causing a loss in excess of half a million pounds,” said Judge Parry.

“By December the same year, you were targeting your next employers.”

The judge told Tann, formerly of Corby, that he then launched an “identical fraud” by making a string of big unauthorised payments into his own bank account over 10 months.

“You placed into serious financial jeopardy the viability of a company and the livelihood of 85 staff,” said Judge Parry.

He also ordered Tann to repay £470,336 to CPP Building Products under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

The dad-of-two was confronted by the firm’s suspicious managing director Paul Blanchard in October 2018 after making a series of huge transactions into his own account, the court heard.

Tann confessed he had been “very stupid” after piling up large debts, the case was told.

Devastated Mr Blanchard said in a victim impact statement that his “world was turned upside down” by the shocking crime.

Nicola Hornby, defending, said that Tann was genuinely remorseful and knew he had made a “serious mistake”.

His new jail term will run consecutively to the sentence he received earlier this year for sinking Market Harborough-based Shortbreak Diamond Holidays.

Tann siphoned off an astonishing £685,648 – forcing the shattered tourism operator to go bust.

The company, based at Compass Point, off Northampton Road, Market Harborough, went into administration in March 2017 owing £10 million.

As a result 10,000 local holidaymakers were left devastated after 1,500 trips had to be scrapped.

Tann was imprisoned after admitting four counts of fraud by false representation and three counts of false accounting.

The finance director also pleaded guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice.

Tann’s greed cost 78 posts at his gutted employer’s two offices, with 52 workers in Market Harborough and 26 in South Africa losing their jobs.