Former police officer sentenced after using charity money to pay for building work on home

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Nottingham Crown Court

A former police officer who used charity money to pay for building work on his own home will carry out unpaid work in the community.

Ryan Bowskill, 30, of Colley Lane, Weston in Newark appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday (April 5) and was given a one-year prison sentence suspended for two years along with a requirement to complete 180 hours of unpaid work.

He previously pleaded guilty to six counts of theft and one of fraud.

While working as a PCSO in 2012, Bowskill secured more than £22,000 in grant money to renovate and run a youth centre in Worksop.

But he used £420 to settle a building inspection fee at his home and a further £169 to Severn Trent Water relating to another application at his address.

To do this, he withdrew cash from an account set up to hold the grants and paid it directly into his personal bank account.

There were also a number of purchases made for materials and services which, instead of being used on the renovation of the community centre, were used on the house he was living in and building an extension on.

Financial investigators also found that Bowskill, who became a police officer in 2013, had falsified a signature on a grant application.

Bowskill had previously been found guilty of gross misconduct at an internal disciplinary Special Case Hearing at Nottinghamshire Police Headquarters on February 8 2017.

It was found he acted in breach of trust by taking money from the Online Youth and Community Centre account and used it to settle his own liabilities.

He admitted the entirety of the case against him and was dismissed without notice.

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