Five years jail for Nadir aide

LONDON - A grandmother, Elizabeth Forsyth, was yesterday jailed for five years for handling £400,000 stolen by her former boss…

LONDON - A grandmother, Elizabeth Forsyth, was yesterday jailed for five years for handling £400,000 stolen by her former boss fugitive, the Polly Peck tycoon, Asil Nadir.

The 59-year-old financial consultant voluntarily returned 14 months ago to the UK from self-imposed exile in northern Cyprus with Nadir. The sentence brought gasps from the public gallery.

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