Final conviction in Torex false accounting case

Mark Woodbridge, the former group financial accountant of software supplier Torex Retail, has been jailed for his part in a fraud where the company's accounts were manipulated to show healthy trading.

Woodbridge was sentenced to three years and 10 months' imprisonment, disqualified from acting as a company director for three years and ordered to pay costs of £170,000 within 12 months.

The trial marks the final stage in a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) fraud conspiracy prosecution against four former executives of Torex Retail, which was involved in the retail software sector for touch-screen tills.