We’ve all had heavy weekends where we have spent a bit too much on food and drink, right? But imagine spending over $300,000 in a single weekend.
I mean, it’s not possible for the vast majority of us, but it was for Brit Darren Carvill, who began by defrauding Mr Clutch, a car servicing company in the UK.
Back in 2019, he was jailed for two-and-a-half-years after spending the majority of the stolen $325,000 (around £260,000) on partying in London, while he was also seen taking cocaine and with as many as ten female escorts, LBC reports.
Darren Carvill stole massive amounts from his former employer (Facebook)
After serving his time in prison for that crime, Carvill changed his surname to Medhurst, which allowed him to get a job as a finance assistant for 360 Travel, an independent travel agency in the UK.
The conman then got back to his old ways, stealing over $95,000 between July and August 2022 from the travel company, a court heard. And after suspicions grew there and Carvill was even the subject of a police investigation, he decided to start a new gig at the hotel chain Holiday Inn.
The employee claimed his mom had dementia, though later admitted to officials in a police interview he took the money to ‘make himself feel better’.
Prosecutor Stacey-Lee Holland said: “He said he had been down at the time and this was a way to make himself feel better.”
Speaking of what happened at the second job, the travel agency, the prosecutor said: “He entered the office, completed a refund of £9,784 ($12,100) and paid it onto his bank card. He did that almost immediately on having entered work that day.
He has previously spent time in prison for fraud-related crimes (Facebook)
“He then went into the cash office, opened the safes and removed £3,261 ($4,000) in cash, hiding it in his jacket.
“He was blatant in his actions because, as he left, he lifted his jacket, showing the cash, and said to a colleague ‘See you in the morning’ and left the hotel.”
Meanwhile, Katie Bacon, Carvill’s defence lawyer, said he had ‘deep remorse’ over his fraudulent actions.
He had 57 previous convictions, with a staggering 52 of them being fraud-related offences.
Following the Holiday Inn incident, Carvill now faces a period of three years behind bars.
Speaking to him in court, Judge Julian Smith said: “You are not a victim. Others are the victims. Your name carries that stain of dishonesty by what you did. By not declaring it is misrepresenting your background. You may want to wipe the slate clean. You can’t do that by not declaring.”
