Mine union leaders accused of stealing £150,000 from charity to appear in court
TWo leaders of the breakaway miners’ union UDM are to appear in court next week charged with the theft of nearly £150,000 from a charity which ran a care home for sick and elderly miners.
Neil Greatrex and Mick Stevens are accused of diverting money from the Notts Miners’ Home Charity to pay for improvements to their own homes.
The charity’s primary purpose was to run a convalescent home at Chapel St Leonards, near Skegness in Lincolnshire.
Both pleaded not guilty when they appeared in court in March last year.
The trial is expected to last three weeks.
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