A BROMLEY accountant who stole £150,000 from family trusts and failed to distribute the cash to cancer charities is facing jail.
Ronald Bassett-Cross, 70, of Sandford Road, Bromley, today pleaded guilty to six counts of theft and three counts of fraud by abuse of position when he appeared at the Old Bailey.
Bassett-Cross was a partner at now defunct accountancy firm Vantis, but was struck off for misappropriating client money in 2009.
He admitted stealing credit balances ranging from £8,970 to £62,845 from trusts including the G St Pierre Trust between August 1992 and June 2004.
Two of the admitted fraud charges relate to an abuse of his position as a trustee of the Sale Settlement Number Three Trust.
The third states that he abused his position as a trustee of another trust by failing to distribute monies to Cancer Research UK and the Marie Curie Foundation.
Bassett-Cross still denies a charge of conspiracy to defraud the G St Pierre Trust relating to a series of properties between January 1989 and January 1997.
The prosecution will now decide whether to press ahead with a trial on this count or accept the pleas.
Bassett-Cross is due to return to court on a date to be set next month.
He is on conditional bail.
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article