Paul Cadman Fraud

Following our original article Paul Cadman Fraud we are adding this update as some errors were made.
Paul Cadman was convicted of fraud on 15th April 2005 at Birmingham Crown Court following a lengthy trial also involving 6 people from the west midlands area.

Cadman who's previous occupations include fairground worker and train driver was the ringleader in the perpetration of the fraud which took place between June 2000 and January 2002.

The Department for Education and Skills closed the scheme in November 2001 following fraudulent claims from companies and individuals across the country.

Cadman shown here outside court on Thursday April 14 denied any fraud took place and claimed to be a legitimate training provider but as the names of applicants included the entire England football team and Harry Potter amongst others this was not accepted by the jury who found him guilty.

Det Insp Churchill,of West Midlands Police told reprters that the system in place at the time was flawed, but said the fraud was uncovered because a member of staff became suspicious of the names being used.

Paul Cadman from birmingham was employed as a caterer at the time the fraud took place and set up the training company with friends in May of 2000. Whilst the company Paul Cadman Training services did in fact provide real training and distance learning packs for some of the genuine applicants, many were just made up names submitted to the ILA in order to obtain funding for courses that never took place.

We have removed the previous article as it contained names of others who were later found not to have been involved and were simply members of staff employed by Cadman to manage and train the legitimate trainees.