Glyn Drabble defrauded a members’ social club on Long Street in Atherstone in Warwickshire of £397,920 from May 2018 to January 2022 while working as its treasurer and used part of the proceeds to fund his gambling.

Drabble, aged 46 from Atherstone, used a variety of methods to personally profit from the earnings of the club, where he had been treasurer since 2017.

The first suspicions were raised when the social club hired a new treasurer at the start of 2022.

The new treasurer noticed that a digital payment system set up by Drabble in 2021 was paying out to Drabble’s personal account. The system took payments by card at the bar and transferred the money to his account.

A total of £16,202.63 was transferred between 13 September 2021 and 12 January 2022.